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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches

family driver. After a while the mother of the five-
year-old discovered from her daughter that she had
been explicitly subjected to sexual abuse by the driver.
If care is not taken and the girl properly mentored and
guided out of that life pattern she may be morally,
emotionally and sexually scarred for life.

In whatever form you notice your personal area of
challenge, the solution lies within grace. Paul the apostle,
for instance, faced some peculiar challenges in the course
of serving the Lord. God had given him unusual level of
divine vision and revelation which established him as a
frontline apostle and master builder in the Kingdom of
God. The insights and revelation Paul got set him on
collision course with the devil. The devil was so unhappy
with Paul that he set out to afflict him with a devious health
challenge. Paul writes about this in 2 Corinthians 12:1-6.

“It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: I
know a man in Christ who fourteen years
ago—whether in the body I do not know, or
whether out of the body I do not know, God
knows—such a one was caught up to the third
heaven. And I know such a man—whether in the
body or out of the body I do not know, God
knows— how he was caught up into Paradise and
heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful
for a man to utter. Of such a one I will boast; yet of

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