God's Grace - Part 1

For the last several weeks I have been attending a Sunday School/Bible Study about God's grace.  It has been wonderful, the class is wrapping up and next week we are going to talk about our own personal experiences with God's incredible grace.  James is preaching the next two Sundays so I am going to miss my class, I figured I could blog about it.

There are several instances I can think of that have prompted me into thinking "this is a display of God's grace"...the one I want to share is about my grandpa.

Let me back up a few months, January 2011, if you are an avid follower of my blog you will recall a short blog entry called "5 People".  Our Pastor had challenged us, me, the congregation to compile a list of 5 people, lost family or friends, and diligently pray for their salvation...every day.  My grandpa was on my list, I have been praying for him since that day in January.

Last Sunday afternoon my aunt called and said my grandpa had passed away that morning.  He died in his sleep.  She said she knew that I'd want to know about his spiritual condition.  She said she was having a conversation with him in June and an opportunity presented itself for her to talk to him about Jesus.  Amazingly, he relayed more to her than she even imagined he would.  He told her that during one of his recent hospital stays a "baptist" (not that it matters) minister came to see him and my grandpa asked him if he was a bad person for not going to church and if he could be a believer even though he hadn't been in church.  All these glorious questions and answers led him to Christ and my precious aunt retelling his story to me.  The grace I see is God just letting me know, He doesn't have to do that but He did for me and I am so grateful.