There are a couple songs we sing in church that refer to being "soaked in God's grace". What exactly does that mean? We come in out of the rain and say "I'm soaked". We might climb out of the shower or bathtub and say "Hand me a towel, I'm soaked". A good water balloon fight might produce that statement as well "Whew, am I soaked".
I've pondered what it means to be soaked in God's grace and I don't think any of the above can even come close to what it's really like. If I were to find someone who could produce a video of my idea, we would first see a person surrounded by water, nothing else to be seen put water and the person, then the camera would move away and there would just be more and more water, eventually it might pop out of the water only to discover that it was a really, really big area of water. Pulling away even more you would find that the water was actually an ocean and our person, whom we could no longer see, was somewhere in the midst of it all. Now, that's soaked.
Even so, I still don't think that's right. The illustration falls out of sync when the camera comes out of the water because there's no getting out of God's wonderful grace, it just goes on and on and on and on. When I admitted to Jesus that I was totally lost in sin and asked for His forgiveness, He gave it and so much more. His constant presence, help, love and joy. I have His Word to read and am able to boldly go to His throne in prayer. I am welcomed into God's family as an adopted child and am looking forward to life with Him forever. That only begins the list of the abundant blessings I have in Him. I am soaked in His grace, thoroughly soaked, never to be dry again.
Hand me a towel? No thank you, I like being soaked.
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