Snapshot: God's Grace Reflected

Recently I heard part of a quickened conversation where people were talking about window installation.  I heard the phrase, "a window of grace", and that was a recurring theme for a while after that.

Several days later, God opened my mind in this area.  I saw in a vision a room full of mirrors.  Sets of mirrors were facing each other, in pairs, and there were too many sets in this room to count.  Everything looked very pure and spotless, very clean.  The Lord allowed me to understand that this was a room of God's grace reflected.

When we are not as close to God as we should be, when we have become separated from Him due to sin, when we are doubting if we can again return, we look from far off at God's grace.  We look at it as something that cannot be achieved, as something we cannot earn back.  We are right...it can't be earned back, because it was never earned in the first place.  Jesus paid for it for us.  We can return to Him and His graciousness.  We can play out in our life the parable of the prodigal son.  Whenever we have stumbled, God gives us a window of grace.  By God's grace, we can look through that window and see Him again.

There is a more excellent way here.  We don't need to constantly be entering and losing the presence of His Grace.  We can do more than just be beckoned to it by a window of returning Grace.  Look at the early Church.

"From there they sailed to Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had accomplished."  Acts 14:26

This is the better way.  We can continually commit to His Grace.  When we keep it in our awareness, we have entered in through that window.  We can know Him, and this knowledge of His grace will always lead us to not tempt or misuse it.  At that point, we discover the worth of knowing His love.  We discover that this precious grace is too good to draw from afar.

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."  2 Corinthians 3:18

Our faces are unveiled within His Presence.  Only from the inside, and not the outside, of the window of Grace is where we become unveiled.  Our only response to God's window of Grace is to awaken and enter in.  From there, God reveals to us more and more of His Grace.  And it is His Grace that allows us to inherit His Glory.

God showed me through that vision that He desires us to live in a place where we personify His grace reflected.  His Grace should be evident in our lives.  We should be continually playing it out.  We should be committed to it, like the early believers were in the Book of Acts.  We should be aware when looking at our lives, that God's Grace has enabled us to be transformed into His Son, going from glory to glory.  He beckons us with grace and He transforms us with grace.  It is only though obedience to His graciousness that we can be continually with Him.  It's a shame to have to always be returning to God.  Why not stay with Him?