Grace is Dangerous

I think that most of us know in our heads that God is self-sufficient; however, in our hearts we believe that He is dependent on us, our successes or failures, our joys or sorrows, or even our decisions. 

God’s glory depends on no man!

James 4:14 humbles my heart when it tells us that we are merely a vapor in the wind that will appear for a little while and then vanish! The entire Bible paints the perfect plan of the Father where He establishes all things and brings back to Himself all the glory and honor that He alone deserves. Since He has established all things, there is nothing we can bring to the table that He does not already possess. Everything we are given, each day and all that comes with it, are all a testament to the Lord’s grace.  Our very existence is His, we owe Him everything. He owes us nothing!

Acts 17:25 reads, “And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else”. He is lacking in nothing and although He doesn’t need us, the greatest mystery to me is that He loves and wants us to come to him in a sanctifying relationship. The Almighty cares about my mundane life! Who am I that the Creator of all things is mindful of me?  

We need to understand the point of Grace. God does not give us grace as a guilt trip. We don’t have to do “good things” for God. He recognizes that we are incapable of perfection. Hence, grace.  Therefore, as sinners saved by grace alone through faith alone, it is a joy to serve the Lord and be under His sovereign authority. It can also seem dangerous! If I were saved by my works then can there be a limit to what God asks of me because I would have put in half of the work. However, since I am a sinner saved simply by God’s grace, by no works of my own, there is nothing He cannot ask of me! This seems dangerous (and it is dangerous to our selfishness and pride), but it is where completeness of joy takes place!

When we come to the realization that God is unimpressed with us and unshaken by our attempts to dethrone Him in our own lives, we will recognize that our main concern should be to glorify His name rather than our own. Only then will we understand that He is self-sufficient. 
His Glory is top priority.