GRACE IS A GIFT

Imagine you are half a million dollars in debt. Someone comes to you & writes out a check for $500,000, saying:

“This is all for you, to cancel your debt. You don’t have to do anything but reach out & take it, and it’s yours.”

So you take the money & pay your debt. You are now debt-free & totally in the clear.

What do you have to boast about? Can you go around bragging that you had the skill & the brains to reach out & take that check? Does that make any sense?

Of course not. You received grace - nothing more, nothing less. The fact that you are now debt-free is a hundred percent due to your benefactor, zero percent due to you.

Who, then, deserves the praise & glory for your salvation? Clearly, not you! You have received riches from the resources of God. His grace made it all possible.

“I do not want to be proud of anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of the cross, the ways of this world are dead to me, and I am dead to them.” – Paul (Gal 6:14 NLV).

- (ministry127.com)

“The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.” -  Charles Hodge.