I, even, I am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43.22 #bestwinever #grace

Although I learned faith from the perspective of freely bestowed grace, I struggle with the immensity of this Truth. If there could be some merit found, some evidence I could present that would require the Sovereign of the universe to take pity on me then the conundrum is solved.

But I cannot.

God claims exclusive right to His grace and He bestows it for ‘His own sake.’ As I look out my window into this world, I know God’s judgment is not necessary for perdition to be real. Humans seem to be quite capable of pulling hell up and inviting it to reside. God could just leave us and not bother with the mess we create ‘without’ Him.

But He doesn’t.

Instead God, because He is God, graces the rabidly rebellious with goodness, graces the unfaithful follower with constancy, graces the confused with intelligence, graces the hopelessly indebted with an empty box.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.-Romans 5:8, NASB

“No-one can understand the message of Scripture who does not know the meaning of grace.  The God of the Bible is ‘the God of all grace’ (1 Pet. 5:10).  Grace is love, but love of a special sort.  It is love which stoops and sacrifices and serves, love which is kind to the unkind, and generous to the ungrateful and undeserving.  Grace is God’s free and unmerited favor, loving the unlovable, seeking the fugitive, rescuing the hopeless, and lifting the beggar from the dunghill to make him sit among princes.”

-John R. W. Stott