Grace & Wound

I personally think Grace and Wounds are inversely proportional to each other. If we are filled with Grace, we would be wounded less; if we are not filled with Grace, we would be open to more wounds. Ultimately no matter how deep your wounds are, you can overcome them as long as God's grace is deep enough within you. For example, when you are filled with God's grace, you can overcome whatever you may hear from people. But if you are lacking in God's grace, you will only become sensitive to what you hear from people, even to the point of their subtle body language. This is why we have to focus more on God's grace. Even if we try to avoid it, you must be careful; we cannot ever completely escape from being hurt. If this is the case, it would be best for us to increase the weight of God's grace in us, so we may overcome our wounds.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we are living in a world that is filled with wounds. But we are also living in a world filled with God's grace. The question is, how much are you willing to open your hearts to God's grace instead of hurtful words that wound us? God's grace is not found in a special place. His grace is always available to us in all parts of our life. I would recommend you to pray. Prayer is the path way to God's grace. With open eyes we see clearly the situation that hurt us with its spiteful eyes. Sometimes we just need to close our eyes and feel God's grace for us. Prayer makes us calm and prayer makes us warm. There's no better prescription than to pray for our broken heart. The words of Jesus from the Gospel of John 16:33 came into my heart, "in this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."There's nothing to fear because you believe in the One who has overcome the world, our Lord Jesus Christ! I pray that you will increase God's grace in yourself. Then you can be victorious over the obstacles that you will face in life. 

In His Grace,

Rev. Won D. Kim