Today I need more grace in my life. I am grouchy, tired and just overall in a bad mood. I am sad and lonely. I am also confused and kind of mad. Today prevenient grace will have to be enough to get me to tomorrow.
God gives grace to all people and enables us to respond to more grace. God gives grace so we can move toward Him. We are all born into original sin, spiritually dead. If we are going to be saved, God has to start by drawing us. He does this for each person through prevenient grace. Grace is the unmerited work of God in us, for us, and through us. Prevenient grace restores our ability to respond to God.
Open windows is the illustration that many people use for prevenient grace. God opens windows in time and space for us to feel and receive extraordinary grace that enables and prompts us to respond to his calling and drawing us. These windows come at interesting moments sometimes. I felt the strongest moments of grace (which allowed me to respond to God) in Dawn's office as a high school student, on the beach in Boston during the fireworks, and other unexpected places.
Unfortunately for me, (and many) prevenient grace is not enough alone to appropriate salvation
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