by Diana Durrill
Such beautiful, life-giving words! God's grace brought us salvation through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, who was full of grace and truth (John 1:14). But God's grace doesn't end there. "From His fullness we have received grace upon grace" which goes on to sanctify us, teaching us how to live a life that is glorifying to Him. God's grace, generously poured out on undeserving beneficiaries, models what grace should look like in our own lives. His generous, life-giving grace trains, inspires, and motivates us to live a grace-full life free of ungodliness and worldly passions, self-controlled, upright, and godly. This grace allows us to fully embrace today while eagerly anticipating the Lord's return.
"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." - Titus 2:11-13
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow the benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God’s kindness to us in Christ Jesus. - A. W. Tozer
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