Grace Be Unto You • Daily Devo #474
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 1:3, Philippians 1:2 KJV
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Colossians 1:2 KJV
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:1 KJV
The Message For Today (March 5, 2026):
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This scripture is a common greeting in these letters to the churches. These greetings all start with “Grace be unto you…”. When we read into what grace means biblically, we can really look at the power of this greeting and expand on it for the sake of this devotional.
In the Bible, grace is defined as the free, unmerited favor and love of God toward humanity, specifically providing forgiveness, salvation, and strength that cannot be earned and represents the goodness of God, the love of the Father, and the heart that he has towards his children. Grace is a supernatural empowerment by God. It is forgiveness, it is release, it is empowerment, it is advancement.
Grace is a full word in scripture, and so this greeting is not just saying “Well, we hope that you become strong”. This greeting, that is given four times in scripture, is essentially blessing the churches with the empowerment of God. There is a blessing in this simple statement. Grace be unto you and peace, not just grace, the supernatural empowerment from our God, but also peace from the Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father.
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ are one. But they make the distinction here in these scriptures because they knew the personhood of Jesus during that time. They didn’t know Him personally, but they knew that Jesus had walked the earth as a man, and so distinctly blessed the churches with peace that went beyond just the peace from God but the peace from the man that walked the earth on behalf of our Father Jesus Christ.
So we see this full blessing, the power in this greeting, and to do it continuously to Corinthians, Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. So, all of these churches are being blessed by the writers of these scriptures. The Apostle Paul blesses, the writings bless, these letters start off,
that even though they may be admonishing,
even though they may be corrective,
even though they may be setting the record straight for the churches in really breaking down the understanding of how those churches, each one of them, should be operating.
how those churches contextually should be honoring the word of the Lord, how those churches and the body of Christ are to operate.
These teachings, these letters brought forth revelation, gave us understanding, and help us to see millennia later the goodness of God, to understand how these scriptures can be applied to our everyday lives.
But first, before all of that, before the corrections, before the breakdown of scripture, before the teachings and the multitude of revelations, they said, grace be unto you.
It was the start of something new, the start of letters that were meant to transform. It was the greeting to say, Before we get started, grace unto you and peace from God, our Father, and peace from the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the power of God in a statement, to bless the people of God in a statement, a greeting, a blessing. Grace did the heavy lifting in this instance, by God, grace did the heavy lifting.
