WHAT IS GRACE?
Grace is us enjoying God’s riches free because Jesus paid the price with His blood on the cross. Grace is God giving us what we cannot earn and don’t deserve.
When we come to Christ, we are not only forgiven, but because of His grace, our slate is wiped clean. Our record is pure, it’s as if we never sinned. Because of Grace, we have the unmerited favor of God.
 

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

“We are washed as white as snow” (Psalms 51:7, Isaiah 1:18).

You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. Christ paid for your sins with His blood on the cross. God’s grace is free to all who will accept it, but it is also priceless. The cost of our sins is far more than we could ever afford to pay, but Christ has taken our sin debt upon Himself and paid it for us.

This may very well be the most difficult spiritual truth for us to embrace. For some reason, people accept Jesus as Lord before they accept Him as Savior. It’s easier to comprehend His power than His mercy. We’ll celebrate the empty tomb long before we’ll kneel at the cross. We, like Thomas, would die for Christ before we’d let Christ die for us. We are justified, not by our worthiness, but because of the worthiness of Christ.

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