God, Your grace is sufficient.
His grace is sufficient in all things always. These words have been the backdrop at church since before I arrived. "Tu Gracia es Suficiente." Not until tonight did it make so much sense.
I am learning that one of the things that I love about this culture is that the people are so gracious. They are gracious with me and with each other. With people they know very well and with others they don't know at all. I see their grace with me when I am stumbling over my limited Spanish to try explain myself. Grace is apparent when I'm wandering the school because I don't know exactly where I am supposed to be. Their culture is surrounded by grace. If you're experiencing car troubles, no one honks or yells as you're barely making it down the road. If you can barely get on the bus because there are so many people, no one gets upset or silently rolls their eyes.
The world needs grace. People need grace. Even though we can show grace to others and ourselves, our God is the best and most important giver of grace. We screw up time and time again, but He is always there.
What a reminder it is that we cannot live without Him. In our weakness, His power is perfect.
"Be he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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