“GRACE AND PEACE!”

 2 Peter 1:1-2                    (ESV)

Greeting

“[1] Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of JESUS CHRIST, 

To those who have obtained a faith of EQUAL STANDING with ours by the righteousness of our GOD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST:

[2] May “GRACE AND PEACE” be multiplied to you in the knowledge of GOD and of JESUS our LORD.”

At odd times my mind is almost captured by something I hear or see and I can’t get past the life lesson that THE LORD is teaching me.  In a recently viewed video a pastor says that “GRACE AND PEACE” are ALWAYS listed in Scripture with GRACE listed in front of PEACE!  

As I was “growing up”, I was taught that an acronym for GRACE was GODS RICHES AT CHRISTS EXPENSE.  Then I SEE that I was CHOSEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4) and the realization that I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH my salvation means precisely what I said…..NOTHING MEANS NO-THING!!!  CHRIST CHOSE me before I was ever conceived.  I had NO-THING to do with it!!

CHRIST (GOD IN FLESH) knew that I would need a PERFECT SACRIFICE, so HE GAVE HIMSELF for me in the most brutal death possible because I was a bottom of the barrel!  HIS GRACE was provided to give me HIS PEACE, which can only be achieved through HIS PLAN!!

HIS “GRACE AND PEACE” are NOT written haphazardly in Scripture!  “GRACE AND PEACE” are mandated by GOD because I would have failed miserably had I been included in HIS PLAN.  “GRACE AND PEACE” is something far beyond what humanity could EVER have imagined!!  “GRACE AND PEACE” TRULY was GODS RICHES AT CHRISTS EXPENSE!!!