He does not sell salvation to the highest bidder. Grace is what we receive from God because He is good and kind and merciful and loving, not because we are.Īugustine would say – “God always pours His grace into empty hands.”We can’t buy salvation we can’t impress God with our pain can’t satisfy Him with our sacrifices (Hosea 6:6). We do not deserve to be saved, and there is nothing we can do to change that. That’s the passage that inspired the song “Amazing Grace.” Why should King David, murderer and adulterer, receive the magnificent grace of God? Why should the apostle Paul? Why should we?Įvery time the Bible teaches us about God’s grace, it makes it very clear that we don’t deserve it.
For He knows how weak we are He remembers we are only dust.”īut why? 1 Chronicles 17:16 – “Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and he said: ‘Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?”
Psalm 103:13-14: “The Lord is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him.
The best example is found in Luke 15 in the parable of the prodigal son, when God is shown to be like a father who is moved with compassion, running, bending, even falling on the neck of a dirty, shabby, shoeless, sinful son, and kissing him profusely. The idea of grace comes from an old Hebrew term that meant “to bend, to stoop.” What exactly is the “Amazing Grace” of God? The Bible never gives us a one-statement definition, but it is filled with the idea from one end to the other and with numerous stories that illustrate/teach us what it means.
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