What comes to mind when we hear the word grace? Maybe we think of saying grace at dinner. Maybe we think someone displays grace by how they present themselves and conduct themselves, acting and walking with grace. When God shows Grace towards us, it is God’s free, undeserved, and unearned favor. Grace is something given by God out of His great love towards us. Nothing we earned or are worthy of, but simply out of God’s unending love for those who believe.
“For we are saved by Grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift- not from works, so that no one can boast” (Eph. 2:8-9). Beautiful passage here. We are saved by Grace through our faith in God. Grace is nothing we earn. We receive God’s undeserved and unearned favor through our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ so that no one can boast (talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements).
“So that because of His Grace He made us right in His sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life” (Titus 3:7). God, through our faith, justified (declared righteous in the sight of God) us by His loving Grace.
“For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. They are justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24). We all fall short, but through the redemptive action of our Lord Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins, we are justified and saved by Grace.
Upon our justification by the redemption (deliverance from sin) from the atonement ( sacrifice by our Lord Jesus Christ to suffer the penalty of our sins), we are given Grace by God through our faith which begins our lifelong process of Sanctification with the Holy Spirit living within us.
I will discuss this Sanctification process in the next blog.
