Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John Newton, a former slave trader who got saved, so marvelled at his own salvation that he penned down the words of the famous hymn:
Amazing Grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I’m found
Was blind
But now I see
These words aptly capture our spiritual condition before and after salvation. Yet all these was made possible through grace – God’s undeserved, unearned, unmerrited favour. The thought that we who were enemies of God have now become the children of God, yet without any work on our part, is simply amazing. That the One we were hostile towards reached down and paid the price for our salvation. Too great a thought this is that another hymn writer would marvel:
And can it be that I should gain
An int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Whenever we think about the fact that we are saved, we can only but wonder and worship. For it is only by grace, through faith that we are saved. We look to the Christ who has paid the debt He did not owe to clear the debt we could not pay. Indeed, grace could easily be considered as an acronym:
God’s
Riches
At
Christ’s
Expense
Reflections
1. Are you saved? Do you marvel at the fact that you did not and could not earn your own salvation?
