Gratuitous Grace
Just as a warmed windshield clears the frost, grace clears the residue of performance-driven living.
Devotional Credit: Abide Above
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The heart of today’s message from Miles Stanford is this: mixing grace with law is not merely unhelpful—it’s spiritually devastating. The devotional points us to a vital freedom available to believers, not through effort, obligation, or religious systems, but through the grace of God alone. The author warns that attempting to apply past dispensations—like the Mosaic Law or even the Sermon on the Mount as a present-day rule of life—undermines our position in Christ and forfeits the freedom we were meant to walk in.
We are not called to revive the burdens of the past or prematurely seize the kingdom instructions for a future age. Our calling is in Christ, under grace, right now. When we blend law with grace—even in small ways—we shatter the harmony God designed. Law appeals to human performance, but grace draws us into divine participation. It is no longer “I, trying,” but “Christ, expressing.” Paul’s testimony affirms this glorious exchange: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
When we live under grace, we live in union with Christ’s life, not in self-improvement. The law demands; grace supplies. The law condemns; grace redeems. The law burdens; grace liberates. And this grace is not cheap—it is gratuitous, fully paid for, and extravagantly sufficient.
✍🏼 Personalized Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture
You are no longer bound by a system that demands from you what you could never fulfill. You are Mine, and I have brought you under grace—not partially, not occasionally, but completely. You are no longer under law. That age has passed. I do not call you to labor for Me; I call you to abide in Me, and My grace labors through you.
The law came to expose sin, but I have come to conquer it. Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you are not living in the old order. I placed you into Christ—crucified with Him, raised with Him, seated with Him. I do not empower you to keep rules—I indwell you to express life. The moment you try to mix your effort with My sufficiency, you obscure My glory and rob yourself of freedom.
Do not strive to transform the world through your own determination. Do not burden yourself with what belongs to another dispensation. My will for you today is simple: rest in My finished work. Walk in the liberty of grace. Let Me do through you what only I can do.
When Paul labored, it was My grace that carried him. When you yield, I express through you. There is no need to add to what I have already completed. Simply trust. Grace reigns now. Grace reigns in you.
Scriptures referenced: Romans 6:14; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Galatians 2:20–21; Romans 5:17; Colossians 2:6–7
🪟 Real-Life Analogy
It’s like a window that automatically defrosts when the car engine starts. You don’t scrape the ice yourself—you just trust the system to work. Trying to do both only delays the process and makes a mess. Grace is already running. Let it clear what you were never meant to handle on your own.
🙏🏼 Prayer of Confidence
Father, thank You that I am no longer under the weight of the law, but under the freedom of Your grace. I rejoice that Your grace doesn’t wait for me to earn favor—it is already flowing in me because I am in Christ. I rest in the truth that sin has no power over me, not because I resist in my strength, but because grace is reigning. Thank You for freeing me from every mixture and calling me to walk in Your pure provision. You are more than enough, and I yield to You joyfully.