All-sufficient grace

(John MacDuff, "The Faithful Promiser") LISTEN to audio!  Download audio

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"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.
Grace in all vicissitudes and changes.
Grace in all the varied phases of the Christian's being.
Grace in sunshine-and in storm.
Grace in health-and in sickness.
Grace 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!"

"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