Its Name Is Grace

All men sing the matchless mercies of grace
And praises to God Whose love gave it birth.
It gives men a new chance to see His face,
Heaven's stairway reaching over all earth.
Yahweh talked with Moses for many days,
But kept His face hidden from any man.
Grace admits believers to give Him praise
Daily, face to face, in the Promised Land.
No song is deserved by human kind,
But for those redeemed by the blood of Christ.
It is grace that permitted them to find
The Father's face; salvation will suffice.
If e'er a debt was too great to displace,
The redeemed owe it, and its name is grace.

Perhaps the most difficult thing for us to understand about God is grace. Our human nature cannot fathom how even the most degrading of sins committed by anybody can be freely offset without a lot of hard work. It is free; you don't have to pay anything or to do any work; all you have to do is to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and busy yourself learning how to love other people. Jesus made this possible by taking our sins upon Himself and dying (remember, "the wages of sin is death") for them. He didn't die for Himself, because He never committed sin.

Ephesians 2:8-9 puts it this way: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith---and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God---not by works, so that no one can boast."

This means we are saved by our faith, which comes to us from God, and because of His grace. That is why I hope you are reading my blogs and the Bible passages that are cited for your reference. The blogs are showing you how to love others, friends and enemies and non-acquaintances all, because through our love to others God will know that we have been taught this by His Son, and He will increase our faith. This was promised by Jesus to His disciples in John 15:10, "If you obey my commands, you will remain in My love..." His "commands" are found in the Bible; reduced to simplest terms, they are to love others as we love ourselves.