It is a tragic thing to never have experienced the true, powerful, working and life-changing grace of God. Sadly, most of humanity only hear about, at most, some humanized concept of grace, but of the true grace of God they die ignorant. Tragic is an understatement and by far an understatement in itself. It is equally tragic that many who make mere verbal profession of faith, possibly even having read of God’s grace, themselves never experience the grace of God and His working power.
In comparison to the whole of humanity, it is grievous that only a few have been ravished, forever changed and had their hearts gripped by this most blessed of gifts given by the Almighty Himself and worked out through the Christ. However, rest assured, if you have a beat of your heart, a breath in your lungs, there is still precious time that you may yet know – ah, experience – the true grace of God.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Titus 2:11-14
Oh, the working power of God’s grace – by Christ’s propitiating work wrought about in His sufferings. Oh, how sweet it is to those being saved! Amen.
No doctrine is so precious, so beautiful, so powerful as the grace of Almighty God.
Thinking Back.
As I think about this today, I remember back to the first few years of having been changed by the grace of God. Those first years I had more zeal than knowledge (Hosea 4:6; Romans 10:2), however, I was truly a new creation in Christ. As I would read and study the Scriptures, I was faced with a growing problem that I could not explain but knew was most real inside of me. As I would attend the Sunday meetings, the churches I was a part of, although for the most part biblical, so I thought, always left me empty, as if something were missing. I would read in the Bible about God’s attributes, the workings of Christ, my depravity apart from Christ, and etc., and yet these churches seemed to never speak upon those deeper areas of true grace.
In the mid-summer of 2007, while searching out a video on the early version of YouTube, in God’s providence I ran across a preacher and missionary (Paul Washer) who took me straight into the doctrines of grace – not the teachings of another man outside of the Bible, but directly into the heart of direct passages. It was this that was missing in my knowledge and in my ability to articulate the testimony of how I was saved. I was taken to the very first steps of the foothills of the massive mountain of God’s grace, the very doorway of understanding how and what transpired in my life. It was such a beautiful a time and it changed me forever! The grace of God has been most precious unto this day, and Lord willing, forevermore.
Jeremy B. Strang 
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