As believers in Christ, we need to find grace in the eyes of the Lord, for it is His grace that works in us, does everything in us, and makes us His age-turners; His word is the word of grace, we experience the grace of life as we meet with the saints, we enjoy Christ as our all-sufficient grace, we labor by the power of His grace, and we do everything by grace to live out righteousness, for grace produces righteousness.
Lord Jesus, we come to You today. We come as we are. We want to touch the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace. Amen, Lord, grant us grace today. May we find grace in Your eyes. May we take You as grace and do everything by grace. May we live by the power of grace and in the strength of grace. May we enjoy a life of grace so that we can be right with God and with one another! Amen!
In Genesis we see not only the fall of man but even more, how much God’s grace can do for fallen people. We all fail, and we fail so many times; but we can find grace in the eyes of the Lord.
What is grace? Many think that grace is something God gives us or something that God does for us; grace, however, is much more than this.
Grace is God Himself, the presence of God, enjoyed by us to be everything to us and do everything in us, through us, and for us. When the Lord Jesus came, grace came, for He came full of grace and reality, and of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
Now we need to live by His grace. We can enjoy the Lord as grace by loving Him in incorruptibility. When we love the Lord, we enjoy Him as grace.
When we exercise our spirit to touch the Lord, we realise that grace is with our spirit. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit.
When we see this, when we realise that the Lord as grace is with our spirit, we will simply turn to our spirit, contact the Lord in spirit, and live in spirit so that we may enjoy Christ as grace and live a life of grace.
There is a bountiful supply of the Triune God in our spirit to be enjoyed by us as we exercise our human spirit. When we call on the name of the Lord, we enjoy the supply of grace.
Day by day we need to receive the Lord’s supply of grace so that we may go on with Him.
Like Noah, we need to find grace in the eyes of the Lord so that this grace would operate in us, fill us, make us right with God and with man, and cause us to be the age-turners the Lord needs today.
Oh, grace can do everything in us if we just partake of the Lord as grace!
Enjoy the Word of Grace, Experience God as the Grace of Life in Meeting with the Saints, Experience Christ as our Sufficient Grace, and Labour for the Lord in the Power of His Grace
In Acts 20:32 we see that God’s word is the word of grace (also see Col. 3:16; Jer. 15:16). On the one hand, we need to love the Lord and exercise our spirit; on the other hand, we need to come to the Lord’s word of grace.
Paul committed the saints to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build them up and give them the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.
God’s word of grace can sanctify us and build us up. We simply need to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, and we will sing with grace in our hearts to God.
Like Jeremiah, we come to the Lord in His word and we eat His words; we find His words and eat them, and the Lord’s words of grace become the gladness and joy of our heart. Amen!
We experience the processed Triune God as the grace of life in meeting with the saints on the ground of oneness (Psa. 133:3; 1 Pet. 3:7; Acts 4:33; 11:23).
As we dwell with the saints on the ground of oneness, we enjoy the fine oil, the dew of Hermon, and God’s commanded blessing, as seen in Psalm 133.
The dew of Hermon is the nourishing grace of God. Every morning, the Lord’s grace is new; as we live and meet on the ground of oneness with the saints, we enjoy the fresh and refreshing grace.
We live on the mountains of Zion, that is, in the local churches as components of the unique universal Body of Christ.
May we stay on the ground of oneness in the local churches, being one with the local saints in the Body so that we may experience and enjoy the grace of life with the saints!
Then, we will give testimony to others concerning the Lord, and great grace will be upon all the saints. No matter the outward suffering, persecution, or trials, we enjoy the grace of life, and the grace of God can even be seen among us.
When others are being saved, when their life are changed, and when the saints exercise their gifts in the meetings, the grace of God is manifested among us. Others will say, God is among them, and the grace of God is seen there.
May we have such an experience today!
Lord Jesus, we want to find Your word and eat it so that we may be filled with the word of grace! Hallelujah for God’s word of grace! Amen, Lord, may the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom. We exercise our spirit to come to Your word day by day and eat Your word. Fill us with Your words of grace. May we speak such words of grace to others! Oh Lord, may we experience the processed Triune God as the grace of life in meeting with the saints on the ground of oneness! Be our enjoyment today! Be everything to us. We stand one with You and one with the saints in the Body. May Your grace be visible among us. May there be the grace of life flowing among us! Hallelujah, God commands the blessing and sends the grace of life whenever we are on the ground of oneness, and great grace is among us all! Praise the Lord!
We can experience the Lord as our increasing and all-sufficient grace in the midst of sufferings and trials, as seen in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9.
Our life by grace is not a smooth sailing life; it is a life full of sufferings, trials, and difficulties.
Actually, human life is full of sufferings, trials, and difficulties, and we each have our own set of situations, environments, and things that bother us and seem to hinder us.
However, in the midst of all these things, even though we may ask the Lord to remove this problem or deal with that person who causes us so much suffering, all the Lord can tell us is, My grace is sufficient for you.
The Lord’s grace is sufficient. As we turn to Him, His grace is increasing and also sufficient, even in the midst of our sufferings and trials.
May we learn to find grace. May we learn to take grace. May we allow the Lord’s grace to be sufficient for us in our daily life.
This grace, this wonderful grace we experience and enjoy, also causes us and enables us to labour for the Lord (1 Cor. 15:10, 58; 3:12).
The apostle Paul testified that he was what he was by the grace of God, and His grace was not in vain but on the contrary, he laboured more abundantly than others, yet not him but the grace of God which was with him. Wow!
Many times we feel we are so weak, so powerless, and even have no zeal or desire to serve the Lord. We may even feel disappointed and discouraged.
And then we make the decision to preach the gospel; right away, we experience God’s grace being with us!
When we feel we are bad, we have no progress, there’s no hope, and nothing seems to be going right, we simply need to find a new one to shepherd or someone to preach the gospel to.
It is then that we realise that grace is with us, and we labour by the grace of God which is with us.
Grace is with our spirit, but we spend too much time in our soul.
May we learn to spend more time in our spirit day by day, and may we learn to minister grace to others as we labour by grace.
Lord Jesus, we come to You to take You as grace. Oh Lord, even in the midst of sufferings and trials, keep us turning to You! Keep us coming to You to find grace. May we take Your grace. May we open to You and allow Your grace to be increasing and abounding in us. Perfect us in Your grace. Perfect Your power in our weakness as we enjoy You as grace. Amen, Lord, may we see that Your grace is sufficient for us, for Your power is perfected in our weakness! Amen! Keep us enjoying You as grace, dear Lord, until we simply labour for the Lord in the power of HIs grace! Amen, it is by the grace of God that we are what we are, and His grace is not in vain to us! Yes, Lord, Your grace is sufficient for us, and it is by Your grace that we can labour to minister life to others! Grant us the grace in our labour for the Lord today!
Being Good Stewards of the Varied Grace of God and Live a Life of Grace to be Right with God and with One Another, for Grace Produces Righteousness
We believers in Christ not only enjoy the Lord as grace and live a life of grace but even more, we need to be good stewards of the varied grace of God (1 Pet. 4:10; Eph. 3:2; 2 Cor. 1:15; Eph. 4:29).
The grace we receive is given to us for others we enjoy the Lord as grace to minister grace to others also. Labouring for the Lord is a very enjoyable thing, and as stewards, we need to give others food.
We first eat the Lord, partake of Him as grace, and then we minister grace to others. May we learn to minister grace to the saints, being good stewards of the varied grace of God.
May we live a life of grace by the power of grace and the strength of grace so that we may be right with God and right with one another (Heb. 11:7; Rom. 5:17, 21).
The only way we can be right with God is by grace. What produces righteousness in us is the grace of God enjoyed by us.
Many parents are concerned about their children in school, with the temptations today, the social media, and so many other evil things. The only way we can withstand temptations is by receiving grace.
We can walk in righteousness only by enjoying the Lord as grace. Noah found grace in the eyes of God and lived in righteousness; his righteousness was a result of his enjoying the grace of God.
First, we receive objective righteousness, even Christ as our righteousness, and then we live out subjective righteousness, Christ as our lived-out righteousness.
We may ask God to remove the flesh, for it bothers us so much; however, God is sovereign and wise, and He allows the flesh to remain so that we may turn to Him and enjoy more of His grace.
The flesh, in a sense, is useful to us, for it helps us to turn to the throne of grace. As we see the flesh being so strong in us and hindering us so much, we are forced to turn to the Lord and receive more grace!
We will live a life of grace, for we will live by the power of grace, and the result will spontaneously be righteousness.
Where the flesh is, there is grace; where grace is, the issue of grace is righteousness.
As we see in Romans 5:17, we receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness.
The way we can be right with our spouse is by grace. The way we can be right with our family members is by grace. The way we can be right with the saints is by grace.
Sometimes a husband may mistreat his wife, and no matter how much others encourage him to treat her better, he does not do it. But when the husband finds grace, grace enables him to live a life of righteousness, and he simply is right with his wife and loves her in the Lord.
In the church life as we coordinate with the saints and fellowship together, it is easy for offenses to come in and for us not to be right with others; when we find grace and live a life of grace, we are spontaneously right with the saints and we live in righteousness.
Once we find grace and live a life of grace, grace issues in righteousness.
It is by the power of grace and the life of grace that we can be right with God, with one another, and even with ourselves.
We need to enjoy the Lord as grace, receive the abundance of grace, and allow grace to reign in us.
As Romans 5:21 says, grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life. May we allow the enjoyment of Christ as grace to reign in us through righteousness unto eternal life.
In ourselves, we are not righteous, but by grace we are righteous.
When we live a life of righteousness, God has the ground to expose and judge the crooked and perverted generation in which we live.
When Noah found grace and lived a life of righteousness, this righteousness strengthened God’s standing to execute His judgment upon that ungodly generation.
May we be one with God and allow Him to judge what needs to be judged as we live a life of grace to live out Christ as our righteousness.
Lord Jesus, we want to live a life of grace today! May we find grace in the eyes of the Lord. Oh Lord, we open to receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness! May grace reign in us through righteousness unto eternal life! Amen, Lord, in ourselves we are not righteous, and we cannot live a life of righteousness; but we turn to You and we touch the throne of grace! Oh Lord, even as we see how the flesh hinders us and causes us to fail, we come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace! May we live by the power of grace to have a life of grace today. May we enjoy You daily and allow the enjoyment of Christ as grace to rule and reign in us. Amen, Lord, may righteousness be produced in us. We want to live Christ as our righteousness. Be expressed through us. May we find grace and may we live a life of righteousness. Praise the Lord, grace produces righteousness! Hallelujah, we can live a life of grace to express Christ as our righteousness!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Genesis, msg. 28, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 2, The Line of Life with Noah— the Life and Work That Change the Age – day 4.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Grace! ’tis a charming sound, / Harmonious to the ear; / Heav’n with the echo shall resound, / And all the earth shall hear. / All sufficient grace! / Never powerless! / It is Christ who lives in me, / In His exhaustlessness. (Hymns #312 stanza 1 and chorus)
– Trust Him for the grace sufficient, / Ever equal to thy need; / Trust Him always for the answer, / When in His dear name you plead. / Trust Him for the grace to conquer, / He is able to subdue; / Trust Him for the power for service; / Trust Him for the blessing too. (Hymns #647 stanzas 3-4)
– The grace which God bestows on us / Is just His Son in full; / The rich enjoyment of this Christ / Is plenteous, bountiful. / ’Tis far too great to comprehend, / Too wondrous to contain: / How we, once children of despair, / God’s masterpiece became. (Hymns #1321 stanza 1)
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