Experiencing Jesus by T.D. Jakes

Author:T.D. Jakes [T.D.Jakes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441213440
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

ENDURING GRACE

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

EPHESIANS 2:10

“That we should walk in them” is an interesting phrase. “Walk” is the word peripateo, which means “to regulate one’s life, to conduct one’s self, to order one’s behavior.” Followed by “in them,” the Greek construction is literally saying that we should order our lives within the sphere of the works God has destined us to perform, and there is no way to accomplish this but through the grace of God.

The grace of God is the glue which holds this whole scenario together, for it is the grace of God which saves us, supplies the works in which we are to order our lives, and then gives us the ability to do them! In the same way we relied on the miraculous, saving grace of God to quicken our dead spirit and make us alive spiritually, we must continue to rely on this same miraculous, saving grace to walk in the works He has prepared for us.

We are now talking about the workmanship of God as enduring grace, motivating grace, and persevering grace. Through the grace of God, we frail human beings become superhuman vessels through which the power of God can flow to the world! Remember Paul’s thorn in the flesh? Regardless of what you believe that thorn to be, the Bible makes it clear that God’s grace is sufficient to see us through any attack, trial, temptation, or grievance that would come our way.

Grace is what God gives us to endure circumstances that often do not change. It is that unchanging, unfailing grace that enabled my wife and me to endure long periods of pain as she recovered from a car accident. For months, I watched as she struggled with pain and depression, unable to walk for a prolonged period of time, and finally just stumbling across the floor of our home.

The accident was sudden and violent. My head hit the windshield and I had some cuts and bruises. My mother-in-law was shaken but okay in the backseat with our two-year-old twins, who in their innocence were exhilarated by this unusual adventure. I kept telling Serita to get out of the car, and she kept saying, “I can’t.” As I lifted her from the front passenger seat, she cried with pain and my heart sank. Her foot had been crushed by the impact, and I could see a bone piercing through the skin.

This was a tragic injury for both of us. Our hearts and hopes were as crushed as Serita’s foot. As a young man filled with hope for the future, intoxicated with the elixir of freshly taken vows, and a passionate lover of his new bride, my ears stung at the doctor’s words, “She’ll never walk again.” My lover, my partner, bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, had been cruelly crippled. The doctor said that there was an outside chance she would walk with a metal brace, but I was heartbroken.

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