Are you in a deep pit today?

How much grace do you need right now?

Because, God has more then you could imagine, or need. That's what James says in chapter 4 of his epistle.

James 4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

James brings this truth up after having described the condition among many of his readers. James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Many of them had become friends of the world, and had at the same time become enemies of God. They were away from God, and were like women married persons who had left their relationship with their spouses, and were carrying on with someone other then their rightful spouse.

But, to these people James says..... "But He gives more grace" What does this mean? It means, that regardless of the condition a person may find themselves in, no matter how far away they have gone from the Lord, no matter how much trouble they have gotten themselves in, God has more grace for them.

In fact, the Bible says, that " Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more," Rom 5:20

Also we are told who God gives this grace to. He gives it to the humble, or those who recognize their need for God and His grace, and would humble themselves before Him.

So, regardless of how bad things may have become for you, God is able to help you, and wants to help you, and will help you.

Pastor Bob Grenier

Calvary Chapel Visalia

Application/Promises

1. No matter what you need, God is able to help you.

2. Your needs are not too much for God's grace.

3. The only thing He looks for is a humble heart.

4. What a tremendous and comforting truth all this is.

5. Think of it, "He gives more grace"