But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 6:8
Grace is a New Testament thing, right? We may tend to think so, but Noah somehow found grace, and so did Moses. Jesus brought us grace, but He did not mention it. Yet as the Bible reaches its grand finale, grace is written more and more until that final verse of the Bible when John blesses us with the grace of Jesus Christ.
Grace tells me that Noah was not chosen for his sinless perfection. The same goes for Moses, and everyone else in both Testaments who found grace through our Lord Jesus. Those who stand with John at the very end of this age will not be there to celebrate their own success at sin avoidance. They too will find grace, but how is this thing found? I suppose Noah found it the same way we all found it: He believed.
Grace does not speak of perfection from those who found it, but from Him who gives it. Jesus didn't mention grace because He didn't need it. He was, you might say, the very embodiment of God's grace toward us. We can know that we have found grace in God's sight by the fact that He sent His Son to save us. Like Noah, we must believe, for how can one receive something from the One he or she does not believe in?
God's grace, enabled because Jesus satisfied God's judgment, and the thing we sinners need for salvation. Have a grace-filled Monday!
Bucky
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