John 9:6-7 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash gin the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
The Hebrew word for wash is Ra-Has and it means wash but it also means abundance. Now, there’s no reason for us to think Jesus meant anything other than “wash” when He told this man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash, but when I was studying this, I happened to think of the Hebrew word and it’s further meaning of abundance. It’s a good reminder to us that God gives grace freely and in abundance to all who ask.
1 Timothy 1:14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
There is none who are deserving of grace, yet there are none who are denied grace except because of their own failure to ask for it. God has grace in abundance, laid up and set aside that all who call on the name of Jesus would be washed in an overflow of grace from the very heart of God. Not grace that is just enough to meet a man where he is but grace enough to carry a man where God desires to take him. A river of grace … A flood of grace greater than the flood of judgment that once destroyed all but eight people.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
So, don’t doubt that God’s grace is enough for you now and forever. And don’t think that God’s grace can’t exceed any handicap you may have, whether physical or some spiritual struggle. Every good thing that God desires for us, He does for us … and in those things He does exceedingly abundantly beyond measure. We are truly, abundantly always loved by our gracious God.
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