Prevenient Grace

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 9, 2025

Prevenient Grace

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.

    We have left God’s paths to follow our own.

Yet the Lord laid on him

    the sins of us all.

Isaiah 53:6 

Isaiah 53 is a beautiful prophesy for Christ Jesus, God’s Messiah, and our savior!

In verse 6, quoted above, Isaiah reveals our condition, and he also reveals God’s solution to our condition. God took the first step in our redemption by laying on Jesus the sins of us all. Perhaps the most beloved of all the theological terms in my spiritual lexicon, is Prevenient Grace. John Wesley used this term to describe how God goes before us, God reaches out to us, even before we are aware of God, to warm our hearts to receive his revelation of saving grace.

Throughout the Bible, and especially in places like Philippians 1:6, and 2:13, it is clear God continues to take the first step in forming Christ within us, throughout our lives:

6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

 

13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

 

My Takeaway: As I seek the life in Christ as my way of life, I want to remain firmly in God’s grace for each day. I am helped, and comforted, in this quest by the truth that God is continually working in my life, He is continually taking the first step, to form me into a fully devoted follower of Jesus. 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

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