When I consider what our end would be or even could have been without God lovingly and graciously extending his grace, I cannot help but be grateful. My thoughts to God in prayer is transcribed below.
Graciously Accepting His Grace
Loving Father, Gracious God,
I thank you for allowing the Fall in the Garden of Eden which makes the Garden plus one a possibility in your new creation.
I thank you for setting your redemptive plan in motion which led to death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Father, I thank you for sending your son because now I do not have to live by the dictates of sin, but I can experience forgiveness and healing through your grace.
Now I can be restored to image of God—the moral, natural, and political— that was in the Garden before sin occurred.
Mighty God, I look forward to the complete restoration of perfection in the new Jerusalem.
But even before we get there, I am grateful that I get to be a part of your kingdom now. I get to experience your grace, now. I can experience the grace of forgiveness and healing, now.
I get to love you, now, and show love to others, now. I get to live in the joy of the Holy Spirit, now.
Almighty God, while I look forward to the end and what it looks like, I graciously accept your grace now, for now.
In Jesus’ name, amen.