Reflection on Amazing Grace (Hand-full of Grace: Just enough and Just in Time)

While reflecting I realized that “by grace are ye saved” (Ephesians 2:8), but God continues to dispense daily grace, like the manna of old—just enough and just in time. Grace weaves our tapestry, designs the Artist’s mosaic and spins the wheel fashioning the potter’s clay.

We are hand-woven. We are covered by grace. We are cloaked in its loving protection like Joseph in his coat of many colors. You may ask why just a hand-full of grace. Grace is, of course, measureless and uncontainable. Just as my grandmother lovingly measured out her ingredients by the handful, so do we receive God’s grace dispensed from his hand.

Isaiah 49:16 reminds us that he has inscribed us on the back of his hands. According to Psalm 37:24 although we stumble we shall never fall “for the Lord upholds him with his hand.” If we come with open hands as a child with his mother, God will hold the one while filling the other with his grace. Psalm 139:5, 6 describes that “you hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.”