Many restaurants, especially in the States offer what they call a “bottomless coffee cup.” No matter how much coffee you drink, they keep refilling your cup. I have, dangerously, eaten at “all you can eat restaurants.” The worst for me is a pizza place called Ci Ci’s. Not only do you get all the pizza you can eat, they will make a pizza for you and it still is part of the “all you can eat.” There are all kinds of pizza and even desert pizzas! At Ci Ci’s when the pizza runs out they replace the pizza with pizza. On the counters at Ci Ci’s there is pizza for pizza!
As wonderful as that image is, there is an even more amazing “all you can consume” picture from Scripture. Where eventually Ci Ci’s could theoretically run out of pizza, there is something that NEVER runs out. God says that when we but our faith in Christ we have all the fullness of God. In addition we have “graced for grace.” What does that mean? It means that there is always grace in the place of grace. The counter of God’s grace never runs dry. While the staff at Ci Ci’s may lag and the counter may be temporarily empty, God’s grace NEVER runs out. There is always grace in the place of grace.
How wonderful to avail ourselves of “all you can use” grace!
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