Grace Enables, Equips, and Reveals

2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 

God’s grace enables, equips, and reveals. God’s grace gives us what we need when we need it to accomplish God’s will and bring honor to Him. All of this so the world may know Him.

In the book of Daniel, we have an illustration of how this works.

In the second chapter of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. He calls for all his wise men to tell him the dream and then the interpretation of the dream. None of the wise man can do it, so Nebuchadnezzar is going to kill them.

In Daniel 2:17-18 Daniel goes to his three companions and asks them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning the mystery of the dream so that Daniel and his companions and the rest of the wise men of Babylon will not be killed.

In Daniel 2:19 God reveals to Daniel the dream and what the dream meant in a vision at night. God responds to people when they come seeking Him for mercy. In Luke 18 Jesus tells the story of a tax collector and a Pharisee going to the temple to pray. The tax collector asked for mercy and received it, and the Pharisee who told God how good he was did not receive mercy.

God wants to extend mercy and grace to us; we just have to ask  

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is seeking God for mercy in time of need.

Daniel then praises God who reveals deep and hidden things. God also is He who knows what is in the darkness because He is light. Daniel also gives God thanks for giving him wisdom and might and for giving him the knowledge that he needed for the situation with the king’s dream.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is allowing God’s grace to move us to praise Him.

Daniel then goes to the man who had been ordered to kill the wise men and tells him not to kill them because he has the dream’s interpretation. The man then brings Daniel to the king and tells the king that Daniel has the interpretation.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is having the courage to believe God and put yourself out there so He can be honored.

The king asks Daniel if he can tell him what the dream means. Daniel tells the king that no wise men can tell the king the meaning of the dream but God can because God is a God who reveals mysteries.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing that it is only by God’s grace that we are enabled and equipped and that truth is revealed to us.

In Daniel 2:30, Daniel says that it was not because of any wisdom that he has that God gave him the dream’s interpretation. It was because God wanted the king to know the interpretation. The king needed to know because the dream was a warning for the king. God wants people to know Him and obey His will.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is listening to and obeying the will of God.

Grace is not just for salvation. Grace is also our enabling and equipping to live out our relationship with the God who created us, loves us and by His grace blesses us. Many times, that equates to God revealing some truths from His Word to us.

By God’s Grace Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                             Joe