How do you picture the Grace of God?  This is how I see it …

The River of Grace

It does not start as a trickle like the streams I know in the mountains of Africa or the uplands of Britain. It swells up from the depths in crystal clear glory, deep and mysterious, beyond human understanding. My perception of it will probably be different to yours. This river swells out in all directions, covering the world with Grace.

The River of Grace. Tumbling and splashing from the balconies of heaven, it gushes and flows to the created world in falls of multi-coloured spray. Prisms of colour, starlight, crystals, raindrops, moonshine and sunbeams, it laps around the feet of those who are not sure about it, caressing their toes as little fish nibble in a seaside rock pool.

For the more adventurous it foams around their knees as they splash and play in delight. You can have as much as you want. It is there for the asking; and for those who do ask, it falls in a steady stream of cleansing, healing, life-giving water, fresh as a mountain stream, but warm and comforting instead of ice-cold.

Lavishly it floods over, around and through the children of God who request His blessing. Imagine God’s delight as He watches His children revelling in the waters of the River of Grace. Restored to full health, equipped to serve, enlightened to teach, fed to minister, the River of Grace supplies all our needs and cascades around us in a never-ending deluge. We can swim in it, dive into it. We can go as far into it as we desire.

Open the eyes and ears of your heart. Can you see it shining all around you? Can you hear it flowing as it moves ever outward from the Source, or splashing as a fresh deluge falls on you? Can you feel its warmth and the rejuvenation it brings?

The River of Grace is a gift bestowed on us by Jesus. He opened the floodgates when the curtain tore in two at the moment of His ultimate sacrifice on the Cross. Since then the River has flowed freely over all who desire it.

What does the River of Grace look like for you? Jesus said ‘Ask and it shall be given to you.’ He is waiting with buckets of grace just for you, waiting for your request. May the River of Grace flood your heart, mind and soul with all its elements of life from now for all eternity.