The blue sky.

The air we breathe.

The regenerative elements in our epidermis after sustaining a cut.

The order in the universe.

The 23.5′ tilt of the axis of the earth and how it perfectly allows for the different seasons we experience and the proper exposure to sunlight.

Sunlight.

The gifts, talents and abilities we all possess in diverse degrees, and how they allow us to advance in life.

Stages of GRACE.

This grace is defined as
“the unmerited favor of God,
as manifested and revealed through the bestowal of blessings,
and the gift of salvation to all”.

Every creature has received a bestowal of blessings.

Through the life we live,
through the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen,
through the bending of light through the lens of our eyes,
through the quick change we go through at birth from living in fluid to breathing the prepared air He has given us.

These are all stages of Grace we live and walk and exist in.

My life has been spared three to four times.

The fact that I live in the Age in which I have been blest to live in has probably kept me from being a leper. The skin issues i have dealt with in the past most likely would have led to that.

The staph infection I experienced in 2017 could have gone to my heart and ended my life.

The wreck in which I was involved in 1988, could have taken my life.

There was not an injury to me or anyone else.

You have one or more stories such as that.

The Grace of Provision and Safety at those times preserved us.

There are many religious definitions of Grace.
It can be parsed as many ways as there can be denominations.

At the root of every varying definition is the fact that God,
in His Infinite Mercy has bestowed upon His Creation,

Grace.

This Grace takes all of the shapes we have mentioned here, and more.

God graced each of us with a conscience to be guided by and a mind with which to think and consider.

That gift allows us access to another form of Grace.

Revelation.

Understanding.

Through these gifts of Gods’ Grace we can experience Him……

not merely on a physiological and sensory level….

but in and through a deeper and spiritual relationship.

Before what The Bible calls the “fullness of time”…..
the world and every created being experienced God and His physical and natural gifts.

After that “time” arrived, the world and every human being has been gifted with the
life, words and salvation given us by Christ.

Every human has not heard, nor has every human being accepted….
but every life brought into being, before Him and since,
has been graced with 

His Gift of Forgiveness, 

of Salvation, 

and Redemption.

This initial stage of grace given by Him,

is or can be followed by ascending stages of

experiencing His Presence,

of understanding His revealed Word,

of fulfillment by His Spirit.

The Grace of His Presence brings a peace that His Words say “passes all understanding”.

That compares to knowing what love is or what beauty is….without being able to verbally define your understanding.

Understanding His revealed Word is a gift which comes after a love and a pursuant desire

leads you to look for
and to seek out ALL He has for you.

The fulfillment of His Spirit comes twofold, to me.

It is gifted when we accept His Exercise of life, death, resurrection and the subsequent salvation.

Secondly, it comes in another measure after we pursue Him and desire more of and from Him….
for doing the work he has called and gifted us to do.

From the physiological grace of breath and blood,

to the sensory grace of beauty and nature….

to the Redemptive Grace of Salvation ……

God has allowed us to live in and experience Stages of His Grace.

And, there are more and bigger Stages to come.

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