Friday, January 15, 2010

Full of grace and truth

Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth. I looked up the meanings of these words for deeper understanding, a very helpful thing to do.

Grace: from Websters
  1. good will, kindness
  2. appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men received from Him. Rom. 11
  3. favorable influence of God 2 Cor. 12
  4. application of Christ's righteousness to the sinner. Rom. 5
  5. a state of reconciliation to God. Rom. 5: 2
    9.   eternal life, final salvation 1 Pet. 1: 13
   10.  favor, mercy, pardon

from Strongs- charis G5485- especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life.
acceptable, benefit, favor, gift, grace, joy, liberality, pleasure, thanks-worthy

Truth from Strongs G225/ 227- true, truth, verity
         from Websters
Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value.
4. Veracity- purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth, habitual disposition to speak truth
7. honesty, virtue
8. exactness- conformity to rule
11. the truth of God, is His veracity or faithfulness Ps. 71 or His revealed will Ps. 26
        To do truth is to practice what God commands.

Jesus personifies truth. It is who He is. There is no falsehood in Him. There is no contradiction in Him. He is faithful, trustworthy, honest, good, and there is no one like Him. And yet He is about the business of conforming us into His likeness. Are you looking more and more like the Lord Jesus in your thoughts, your speaking, your attitudes, your actions? We have so much to look forward to in Christ. The conforming journey is an adventure that Jesus will bring us through triumphantly. He has said He will present us before God to stand in His presence holy, blameless and with great joy.

all for the praise of His glory!

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