You are not exempted from God’s saving Grace

Jacob was not a perfect man. He is one of the men recorded in the Bible who messed up big time, yet he ended up being lifted up and blessed so much that his ending was really glorious.

His struggles started right in his mother’s womb. God had already told his mother that she carried two nations in her womb and that the older was going to serve the younger. Jacob was the younger one and he had a great destiny. God had already chosen him to fulfil His plans and purposes, and even though he may not have known who he really was and what God had in store for him, Jacob had his own mind and desires. He ended up deceiving his twin brother and depriving him of his birthright, and from here, his woes and mess kept on multiplying. Yet despite what he did and the wrong choices that he made, God didn’t change his mind and plans for him. The grace of God was upon him and he ended up showing him mercy, delivering him from his brother and Laban’s hand and fulfilling his promises to him.

In our society, there are many Jacobs who have cheated, deceived, messed up other people’s lives by taking advantage of them and in so many other ways. They have done so much that you can’t even think that anything good can come out of their lives. Yet the grace of God is still available for such, and to all of us. We all need God’s mercy and He is always ready to show us His mercy.

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God ~ Romans 3:23 ESV

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him ~ Romans 10:12 ESV

Rahab was a prostitute. She probably had broken so many homes, messed up men and made her fellow women cry for sleeping with their husbands. But she opened her heart to receive God’s mercy and grace in her life. She saved her life and that of her family members by her actions of faith. She was accepted and became a part of God’s people, Israel, through marriage covenant. Not only that, she fell into the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

When God showed Peter a vision as recorded in the book of Acts 10, and told him not to call common and unclean that which God called clean, He was not talking about food, but about men. God’s mind and concern was not just about the three men sent by Cornelius to Peter, but also about Cornelius, his household and millions of people who had the opportunity to receive mercy and salvation, you and me included. He must have known that Peter was going to look at them with another eye, and so He spoke to him beforehand.

Don’t think for a second that you are beyond God’s help or that you can’t be forgiven, the blood of Jesus flows for you and God is always ready to forgive you, take you back and fulfil His promises and plans for you.

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”~ Isaiah 56:3-7 ESV