By grace

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, - Ephesians 2.5,8

There are plenty of songs and hymns about the grace of God, and it is no wonder.

'Amazing grace, how sweet the sound...'

'Marvelous grace of our loving Lord...'

'It is all because of God's amazing grace...'

'Grace, grace, God's grace...'

Grace, to put it simply, is the unmerited favour of God.

I like the way some put it:

God's

Riches

At

Christ's

Expense

I hate to think of what we would be apart from God's grace.  Apart from grace God could have wiped out the world with a flood. Hey could have just torn it all down when Adam and Eve sinned.  He would be just as righteous just as just, and just as perfect had He chosen to wipe it all out and start up Creation 2.0.

But He didn't do that. Grace intervened. God, in His infinite love and mercy, sent His Son to pour out His grace on all who will receive it.

I love the words of the song. I love the way it expresses that it is indeed all because of God’s amazing grace.

Amazing grace O how sweet the sound,

That saved a poor sinner like me!

Though once I was lost, yet now I am found,

Though I was blinded, now I see!

And it's all because of God's amazing grace!

Because on Calvary's Mountain he took my place!

And someday, some glorious morning,

I shall see him face to face,

All because of God's amazing grace.