It has been said that grace is 'us receiving what we do not deserve' and I want to add to that .... good things! Grace is us receiving the 'good things' that we don't deserve. Because it could be looked at as if we don't deserve bad things but we get bad things.
So no! Grace is us receiving the good things from God that we don't deserve. We are sinners, we have fallen short of the glory of God. We do not do those things that we aught to do and we do the things which we know we aught not to do. But Jesus came to rescue us from the punishment, from the justice that we do deserve for the things that we have done wrong. He has come to save us so that we can be overshadowed by God's Grace, His goodness that we don't deserve. But let us not have an attitude that says that we are not worthy, that we're nothing because God sees us as worthy! God sees us through the blood of Jesus, through the blood of the Lamb, through the lens of sacrifice. So when he comes to us to lavish His love all over us, upon us, He doesn't turn away in disgust and dismay. He comes to us and sees us pure and holy, in the likeness of His Son. He sees us as pure so that His love will stick to us. His love will come deep into our very souls so that we can show His love and His grace to a hurting world, to a world that doesn't deserve His goodness.
Here is love vast as the ocean, loving kindness as a flood.
Where the Prince of life, our random, shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He shall never be forgotten, throughout heaven's eternal days!
Dyma gariad fel y moroedd, tosturiaethau fel y lli:
Twysog Bywyd pur yn marw, marw i brynu'n bywyd ni.
Pwy all beidio â chofio amdano?
Pwy all beidio â thraethu'I glod?
Dyma gariad nad â'n angof, tra fo nefoedd wen yn bod.
We are dearly loved because of God's grace.
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