Grace is Your Teacher -- Right Now!

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" (Titus 2: 11-12)

In this verse, Paul writes that the grace of God is "actively, continuously" teaching us. The translation suggests that the grace teaches us first to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, when in truth the implication is that we have already denied those empty  habits and activities:

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 23)

Jesus brings with Himself grace and truth (John 1: 12, 17), and as He is, and as He is in us, so are we in this world, and so we reign in this life.

The grace of God, a gift which we are called to keep receiving (Romans 5: 17)

"to live soberly": to live lives based on God's faith.

"righteously": His righteousness is also a gift that we keep receiving in Him:

"godly": with an inward holiness.

The emphasis on this verse directs us to have a well-understood recognition that we have been transformed from the inside:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

This grace works in us and moves us to do all things (1 Corinthians 15:10)

This grace we live "in this present world" -- literally, RIGHT NOW! This grace is taking care of you right now, and leads us also to trust God to take care of our yesterdays and our tomorrows, too!