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In the coming ages, to human and angelic beings throughout the cosmos, you will forever be an example of God’s grace.

Grace is God’s lavish love to sinners. Grace is God’s abundant forgiveness to the undeserving. Grace is God’s outrageous mercy for the desperate. Grace is God’s free gift to sinners. Grace is God’s outlandish love to rebels. Grace is God’s forgiving tenderness to us. There’s nothing like it. It is incomparable.

The Bible begins with grace and ends with grace. Grace is the message of our lips and the song of our hearts. We rest in grace, we revel in grace, and we glory in grace. It’s the theme of the Bible. It was the song of Paul’s heart. It is our only hope.

In What’s So Amazing About Grace, Philip Yancey recounts an anecdote on grace:

During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time until C.S. Lewis wandered into the room.

“What’s the rumpus about?” he asked, and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions. Lewis responded, “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.” After some discussion, the conferees had to agree.

The notion of God’s love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity. The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of karma, the Jewish covenant, and Muslim code of law—each of these offer a way to earn approval. Only Christianity dares to make God’s love unconditional.

If you have received God’s free gift of life, then you are completely accepted, you are eternally forgiven, you are totally secure in God’s love.

That’s grace.

Believe it. Enjoy it. Celebrate it.