Grace Unlimited

I was reading this morning the first six chapters of Genesis in an attempt to take a coherent grasp of the beginning of creation up to the fall of man and their expulsion from the garden of Eden, up to the time when the Creator destroyed the creation through floodwaters because of man's wickedness.

From that first six chapters of Genesis we will see God at the center of it all, and man trying to make himself the center by virtue of his god-given free will and ability to think for himself. There are way too many themes and topic which can be taken from these six chapters, but for me, what stands out and screaming on the hallowed pages was about God's grace.

It was interesting to take note that even when God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden, God still had the compassion to "clothe them" (Gen. 3:21). God still looked out for their needs that He didn't destroy everything so that the two can still have something to eat and to make their shelter with. That despite their rebellion, God didn't destroy them right away but He gave them a chance to live. Every chapter after the fall we can see man having the chance to choose between offering to God or not; to choose whether to acknowledge Him as the Creator or not.

It was because of His grace why God accepted Abel's offering (Gen. 4); it was because of grace that God walked with Enoch and "took him away" (Gen. 5); it was certainly because of grace that God did not totally annihilate the human race when he spared Noah and his family from the great flood (Gen. 6-7).

Every single generation after the fall of man demonstrated God's grace to people; every single generation after Adam and Eve experienced grace and the chance to repent; every single chapter of God's word breathes His unlimited, unrestricted, eternal grace.

I know for a fact that my generation and the generations after me which will continue to seek God would experience this grace because that was how it has been since the beginning of time. We are all floating in limitless, living streams of amazing grace...