This week my mind turns to the Grace of God...defined as unmerited favor. I have heard it defines thus so long that I start to further define it to fully grasp the meaning.....I did nothing to earn His grace. I am nothing to deserve His grace. As the hymn writer, Issac Watts described us ...just a worm...and John Newton...a wretch...not worthy of much...huh? No merits of our own making.
It is hard for me to differentiate between the love and the grace of God. I suppose it is due to the grace of God that the love of God is bestowed upon us and made real to us. The grace of God, by definition is granted to us for no other reason than to honor and glorify the One who has redeemed us and rescued us from our depraved selves.
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares...
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.
When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
Thanks to the makers of the movie about William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, (a movie I highly recommend) I cannot sing Amazing Grace anymore without wanting to breakout into, "MY CHAINS ARE GONE, I'VE BEEN SET FREE....MY GOD, MY SAVIOR HAS RANSOMED ME... AND LIKE A FLOOD, HIS MERCY RAINS UNENDING LOVE, AMAZING GRACE." It is such a beautiful rendition and reinvention of the beautiful old hymn.
Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift (II Corinthians 9:15)!
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