Have you ever made something overflow? If you're filling a bucket, water fills every possible place until eventually there is no more, and then water flows over the brim and spills everywhere.
Paul is telling Timothy that this is exactly how grace works. God's grace gets into your life and fills every part of life, eventually overflowing in faith and love and spilling into the world around us. But God fills us first, encouraging and equipping us so that we go into the world filled with the awareness that we have been saved by grace through faith, not because we deserve it, but because God is love and grace.
Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners. His love fills us, every part of us, even the parts where we hide our deepest secrets and greatest shames -- grace reaches there, and once grace has completely covered us, it overflows into our relationships and our work and our play. Let grace fill you, and see where it leads you, that we may be transformed as examples to the world.
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