All-Sufficient Grace

"God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things — may abound to every good work." (2 Corinthians 9:8)

All-sufficiency in all things! Believer! Surely you are "thoroughly equipped for every good work!" Grace is no scanty thing, doled out in pittances. It is a glorious treasury, which the key of prayer can always unlock — but can never empty. It is a fountain — full, flowing, ever flowing, over flowing!

Mark these three ALL'S in this precious promise. It is a three-fold link in a golden chain, let down from the throne of grace by the God of grace. "All grace!" "all-sufficiency!" in "all things!" and these to "abound." Oh! precious thought! My need cannot impoverish that inexhaustible treasury of grace! Myriads are hourly hanging on it, drawing from it — and yet there is no diminution. Out of that fullness we, too, may all receive, "grace upon grace!"

My soul, do you not love to dwell on that all-abounding grace? Your own insufficiency in everything, met with a divine "all-sufficiency in all things!" Grace in all circumstances and situations, in all vicissitudes and changes, in all the varied phases of the Christian's being. Grace in sunshine — and in storm; in health — and in sickness; in life — and in death! Grace for the old believer — and the young believer. Grace for the tried believer, and the weak believer, and the tempted believer. Grace for duty — and grace in duty; grace to carry the joyous cup with a steady hand — and grace to drink the bitter cup with an unmurmuring spirit; grace to have prosperity sanctified — and grace to say through tears, "May Your will be done!"

J.M.D.