My Grace is Sufficient

As I approach the one year mark of being diagnosed with breast cancer I am beginning to look back at what God has taught me. I have learned that I have the strength to daily stand and fight a life threatening disease because His grace is sufficient for me. I have read this verse in 2 Corinthians 12:9 dozens of time but have never really understood it until this past year. God can not make His grace anymore sufficient for whatever you are facing than what it already is. This verse does not say His grace might be or could be but IS sufficient. H.W. Webb Peploe said, "Never change God's facts into hopes or prayers but simply accept them as realities, and you will find them to be powerful as you believe them."

All of us will face our own battles. Life is just that way. As you face what God has allowed into your life for His purposes and glory thank Him each day that His grace will enable you to face it with confidence. God is bigger than any giant that attempts to march into your land and bring destruction with it. He will hold your hand and heart and walk you through it. Don't shrink back from the difficulty or size of what you see. Focus your eyes on God. He is bigger than anything that would come to steal, kill or destroy your joy, finances, relationships or health. Trust Him. He knows what He is doing and He never sleeps on the job!

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added afflictions he addeth His mercies,
To multiplied trials His multiplied peace.

When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father's full giving is only begun.

His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.

Anne Johnson Flint