Have you been feeling like you keep hitting a wall of opposition in your walk with the Lord? Those things that have been blocking your life for so long will never be removed apart from grace.
The grace that is ours only through faith in Christ is what will carry us in our most difficult times and keep us when we are enjoying the successes.
There will always be obstacles that will try to oppose us.
Zerubbabel was a man called to rebuild the temple after the Jews had been released from captivity in Babylon. The time had come for them to return home and start fresh with God.
It seemed at every turn they were opposed. The enemy did not want them to enter into the place they had walked with God in times past. He did not want them to experience God afresh.
Zechariah 4:7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"’"
A capstone is what is put in place when the building comes to completion. That completion is brought forth with shouts of Grace, Grace. If you wish to see your building all the way through to completion you will have to do so by Grace!
God is constructing a new temple for Himself in the earth today!
1 Peter 2:4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy
priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
No man can ever boast of a true spiritual sacrifice. A spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God is one where my flesh had nothing to do with it. It was all grace resulting from faith in Christ.
If you or I intend to never be put to shame we will have to learn to put our trust in Him and cease from trusting in our own works to merit favor with God. You will never be more holy than what true faith in Christ will make you.
No one will ever be able to add to what Jesus did seeing it was the only thing that pleased God to the point of satisfying His justice.
Therefore it is by grace we are saved and that through faith, not of works lest any man should boast.
We receive this grace in vain when we think we can do better ourselves and begin to act independently from the Lord.
I shout grace, grace to your situation. Grace, grace to whatever hinders you today. Grace, grace to uphold you in His righteousness and cause you to see how far He has brought you and not you yourself.
All glory and honor and praise belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ who has purchased us with His own blood and has brought us into right relationship with God the Father by His grace!
We should be giving Him praise!
We should be thanking Him today for His glorious work in redeeming our lives! Glory to Jesus for His abundant mercy and grace! Let’s not receive this amazing gift of grace in vain. Let Him warm your heart with a revelation of His grace and glory through Jesus Christ today.
About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
