His Grace is More Than Enough

2 Corinthians 12

Paul said that he had a messenger of Satan to buffet and asked God three times if He would remove it from him.  God answered "my grace is sufficient."  And for some reason we have made grace a kind of consolation prize to what we were asking for in the first place.  We think God is not answering us but giving us His grace instead of the solution to the problem.  Our job then is to take the grace of God and endure whatever thing is causing us to suffer.   But that is not what Paul thought of the more than enough nature of Grace.  It is the answer.
God never said "no" to Paul's request for relief.  He said, "My grace is more than enough, power is perfected in weakness."  Grace became the power of Paul's life to live regardless of his circumstance.  Often times we think that because God doesn't answer our prayers right away he is saying no.  What we need to do is wait for the grace of God to roll out into our lives.  We are affected so immensely by a "microwave - high speed" society that if God is not responding immediately something is wrong.  God's sovereign grace and its operation are not limited to time and space; it is not affected by deadlines and schedules.  Just because there isn't instantaneous results doesn't mean God is saying no.  In fact He has already said yes, Grace.
What we have to do is trust the details of Grace to Him.  I think that is the hardest part of walking by faith in God's grace.  The reason we often fail is because we are not sure if God will do for us what is the best.  And we judge His performance by the circumstances we are experiencing.  We trust our sight and not His grace.  However, our vision should be dictated by His grace and not our sight.  Can you imagine if your Point of View was filtered through the Grace of God?  You would see everything as a gift of God and that God is indeed good.
Gratitude and Thanksgiving is attitude of the one who is convinced in their heart that "grace is more than enough."