Grace Upon Grace

For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace,

For the law was given through Moses; but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Jn 1:16,17

He was full. What does that look like? We all know what a person who is full of alcohol or food looks like, these affect behaviour in an unseemly way. When someone is full of self, that looks unseemly as well. So here we have Jesus being full, of what? Perhaps verse 16 tells us; grace and truth?

Someone has to have plenty of something so that they can lavish it on others. Jesus was full of God's grace and out of His fullness flowed a river of grace. Grace forgave, cleansed, healed, gave authority, empowered the ordinary to be extraordinary.

As I come to Him I can know that grace waits for me, waits in abundance ready to overflow and fill my world with it's fullness.

Fullness is abundance, fullness lacks nothing, fullness is complete and it is mine for the asking.