Grace

That's a topic I want to explore... God's Grace... Just as I sit here thinking about it a song starts playing on my iPod "Grace keeps giving me things I don't deserve, Mercy keeps witholding things I do..." Pretty cool! :)

This is God's Grace:

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer...

... he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

(Verses from Isaiah 53)



For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-
(Eph 2:8)