A Picture of God’s Grace
by Kenneth Copeland
One night Gloria and I were in the kitchen with the television on and a commercial caught my attention. You’ve probably seen it. It’s an advertisement for some kind of restoration company. It begins with images of a house that’s been gutted by a flood or a fire. Kitchen cabinets are destroyed. Carpet and furniture are ruined. The place is a mess.
Then the scene changes. Restoration crews in green uniforms show up at the house in green cars and trucks and go to work making things right again. In the final scene, the house looks brand new inside and the announcer says, “Like it never even happened!”
TV commercials don’t usually excite me. But when I saw that one, I jumped straight up. It reminded me of what The LORD said to me a few years ago when I asked Him to give me a working definition of the word grace. 'Grace,' He’d said, 'is My overwhelming desire to treat you like sin never happened.'
When I saw that commercial, those words went off in me like fireworks. I pointed to the TV and said to Gloria, “That’s a picture of grace!”
BVOV : 5
