Grace, Abundant Geace

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift — not from works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8‭-‬9 HCSB

Coming from a works background in Catholicism I can say this verse took time to settle into. Paul the apostle could identify with this struggle. He spent his young life as a Pharisee of Pharisees only to have a divine encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Yet as we study Paul's epistles we find he found this grace and embraced it wholeheartedly.

Jesus has paid the price for my eternity with Him and I am grateful and like Paul I now live in that grace. How good is our God! I now know there is nothing I can do to earn this grace as it is freely given.

Grace, abundant grace! Yet in this grace I find a work given to me. I am to share this grace to all who will receive it. Amen!