Series: From Pastor’s Desk
Number: Vol. 15, No. 10
Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to another week of the month of July 2026. My prayer is that the grace of God that is continually being poured upon your life will never go to waste, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Now I offered that prayer for you because it is possible for the grace of God to go to waste in our lives. In other words, it is possible for the grace of God to fail to accomplish what it is meant to accomplish in our lives. And that is why we are warned with these words of Apostle Paul that say:
“As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.” (2 Cor 6:1NIV)
Did you see that? It is possible to receive the grace of God in vain. How is that possible? It is possible through our failure to act on the word of God that is coming to us. Yes, it is possible for us to hear the word of God in a church meeting right now and then leave the meeting to go and do something entirely opposite what we have heard. Likewise, it is possible for us to read our bibles right now and then get up from reading it to go and do something entirely different from what we have just read.
Judas Iscariot, for example, sat with all the apostles of the Lord Jesus when He was sharing the word of God with them just before He was arrested and crucified. He was with them when the Lord washed their feet and taught them again the need to be devoted to serving one another in love. Yet he left them that same night to bring those who would arrest the Lord and crucify Him. Did he not, then, waste the grace of God that he had received? He did. (Cf. John 13)
Also, God speaking to Ezekiel about all the people coming to listen to his sermons, says this:
“As for you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.’ My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.” (Ezek 33:30-32NIV)
Who was the Lord referring to in this text? Those who were eagerly coming to listen to Ezekiel’s sermons! He was not referring to those who had no interest at all in listening to him. Rather, He was referring to those who were eagerly coming to listen to his sermons. Yet these people that were coming to listen to this man of God had no intention of acting on what he was teaching them. In fact, the Lord told Ezekiel that he was nothing more than an entertainer to them. What, then, were those people doing to the grace of God coming to them? They were wasting it.
Now what does the bible say about those who waste the grace of God? It says that God’s judgment is bound to fall on them. I pray that His judgment will not fall on you. But don’t just keep on listening to His word and making no effort to act on it. Truly, you may have areas of your life in which you find yourself weak in acting on God’s word. All you need to do is call on Him to give you the needed strength to do His will in those areas. And He will answer you. (Cf. Heb 10:26-31)
Paul says this to us about his own attitude towards the grace of God:
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them — yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” (1 Cor 15:10NIV)
Did you see that? The reason Paul did not waste the grace of God upon his life was that he worked hard with the word of God that he was receiving. So, he became the person God wanted him to be. You too should begin to do likewise, if you truly want to be the person God wants you to be. And may the Spirit of God continually fill you with adequate strength to do so, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Have a lovely week.
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