Chosen, adopted IN the beloved; we have been saved by His “grace, through faith.”
We were told that to believe God (as Abraham did) is a “gift” of divine assistance; and without Him we could do nothing.
[Eph 1:4; 2:8; Jn 15:5]
If “faith” is the “gift” of God, then “grace” is God's purpose. And our lives are the canvas of God's creation, IN Christ, unto “good works;” foreordained, as God purposed, that we should walk in them. And we have been assured that 'what He creates He maintains.'
[Eph 2:10]
There is something about “the good pleasure of His will” that overrides, and over rules, any individual effort on our part. So, the Spirit of the Lord says (in the vernacular) “I got this.” Got it?
[Eph 1:5, 11]
And if our salvation is “by grace,” then it is “no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.”
[Rom 11:6]
ThenSingsMySoul:
GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE
GRACE THAT WILL PARDON
AND CLEANSE WITHIN.
GRACE, GRACE, GOD'S GRACE
GRACE THAT IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN.
