The life I now live, I live by faith - Gal. 2:20
If He leaves me with memories only, and not the promise of more, I will be undone.
Paul begins and ends all 13 NT letters with "Grace to you" and "grace be with you"... To you through this letter, with you as you go forward to obey it. So, Paul seeks to bless them with grace that is to come to them, and remain with them.
Every glance backward sparks gratitude for bygone grace; every look forward casts the soul onto faith in future grace.
No one became a Christian without past grace, and no one can be a Christian moment by moment without future grace.
Faith in future grace gives us: Strength of Heart, Endurance in Suffering [grace supplied in the circle of another grace denied], Love.
We live moment by moment from the strength of future grace; if it were not there, we would perish.
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