The Transforming Grace of God Changes Your Life

This is a follow-up post to proclaim God’s transforming grace. The previous post, “Proclaim the Grace of God,” ended with me saying, “I must share what God has done for me.” 

After deep thought, I selected one glorious thing God has done for me. I believe this “one glorious thing” is the most misunderstood; nothing in life would be magnificent without it.

The one glorious thing is;

The transforming grace of God!

I found God’s grace over twenty years ago at a small mission in Oakland, California. You may have read my post “My Testimony of Coming to Faith in Jesus Christ.”

I went to the city mission to receive a meal since we ran out of money. That night, I chose to walk forward and accept Jesus Christ as my savior. The next day, everything outside looked different, and everything on the inside felt different to me, too. That night, I received the best gift anyone could get.

God’s saving grace!

God’s grace didn’t end after receiving him into my heart.

God blessed me with his Holy Spirit to help guide my path in life. The Holy Spirit directed me to take a CNA/HHA certification class to learn how to care for others. He also directed me to a Salvation Army Church, where I began understanding God’s Word.

I’m sure you know the story of my past after reading the personal life story. If not, it was full of dysfunction, abuse, turmoil, and pain. I had a dysfunctional mindset and walked in the darkness with fear for over twenty years.

However, the Holy Spirit guided my path day by day. God’s grace cleansed my heart and transformed my dysfunctional mind, creating an upright spirit.

Cleansing the Heart

My heart was still filled with pain and anguish from the past. I was bitter and angry at my mother and father for years of neglect and abuse. I hated my mother in my heart.

I was saved, and the Holy Spirit came to me. However, it took a long time for God’s grace to cleanse my heart from all the former things.

It took years to clean my heart from bitterness and anger.

God’s saving grace gave me a job caring for others, which allowed God’s grace to show me how to love and compassion for others.

In time, the grace of God removed all of the hatred and allowed me to forgive my parents. He removed the hatred for my mother and replaced it with forgiveness. The grace of God also provided me with forgiveness for my husband.

Transforming the Dysfunctional Mind

The grace of God has transformed my dysfunctional mind over the years. The Holy Spirit guided me through years of Bible studies. It was the Word of God that slowly, over time, renewed my dysfunctional mind.

In the last few years, I received the gift of understanding past hurts. This new enlightenment was possible by, you guessed it, the grace of God.

Creating an Upright Spirit

God’s saving grace will gradually transform you into an upright spirit if you walk by faith in Jesus Christ.

I believe the most misunderstood thing is God’s saving grace. You see, God doesn’t just save you once and then leave you to flounder in the darkness by yourself.

Oh No!

The saving grace of God continues to work in you, through you, and for you. It will keep working until your heart is cleansed, your mind transformed, and your spirit upright so you can walk in the light of Christ.

After that, the grace of God is still active in you, through you, and for you until you are called to join the Father in heaven.

God promises he will never leave you nor forsake you. God’s word is the truth, and God himself is the truth.

God’s saving grace has and continues to transform me into a new person, a child of God. God’s saving grace doesn’t work once when you accept him by faith and never again.

God is an active heavenly father who guides us on the narrow path.

God’s glorious work for me, and you are to give us his saving grace. I pray that you have accepted him by faith. His grace is available to anyone who confesses to the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior.

I would still be wandering in the darkness without God’s saving grace. You can’t get more glorious than that! Praise the Lord, for he alone is worthy to be praised.