John 1:16

John 1:16 says, And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.  John the Baptist continues to speak of Jesus, and how we all received His fullness, grace for Grace.  Christ never lacks in His ability to provide for His followers.  We do His work by His guidance and from His never-ending provision for us.  When we, as His followers, serve the Creator of all things, why do we so often feel that we cannot afford to do whatever He calls us to do.  Sometimes I wonder how small we really feel God is.  We have received the fullness of Christ, not some small percentage.  We receive this fulness by His grace, the unmerited gift of God.  As we have received the blessings of life through His grace, we are called to reach out to the rest of the world in Grace.  We cannot wait for people to become worthy of our love and compassion.  We are to reach out to them as God reached out to us through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.  We want forgiveness by the grace of God, but do not want to offer forgiveness to others. Verse seventeen continues, For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.  Verse eighteen concludes, No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.  John the Baptist stated that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.  We hear a lot today about displaying the Ten Commandments, but we must realize they can only point to our inability to live up to God's calling.  We are told they are to be written on our hearts.  In other words, they are not just words engraved in stone, but living words in our hearts.  Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.  This is what we should be concentrating on.  The law was fulfilled in Christ, by His truth and grace.  It seems at times that we are more concerned with displaying the Ten Commandments than we are in living by them.  What we need to display is the grace of God in our lives.