Verse of the day: Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Grace...getting what we do not deserve. Amazing grace...being completely overwhelmed when we realize how much we have been given, in Christ, that we do not deserve. Salvation, the greatest act of grace that God can bestow on us has been provided to us through faith in Jesus Christ, and His finished work on Calvary. There is not a single thing that we have done or could have done, outside of trusting Jesus, by faith, that would have convinced God that we deserve eternal life. God, in His great love for us, and knowing that we were marred by sin, provided for us what we could not provide for ourselves. There is not a man or woman alive who can go before God, and boast of his/her accomplishments, as even our works of righteousness, outside of Jesus, are as filthy rags to God (as recorded for us in the Book of Isaiah). The bottom line is that none of us, who have called upon Jesus as Savior and Lord, have bragging right, other than boasting about Jesus, and who HE is. Let us be grateful today for God's grace. Praise and thanksgiving to our God, who, even if He gave us nothing else in this life time, by providing a Way of salvation alone, has already given us more than we deserve.
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