I admire and love the grace of God

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"Among whom we also once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:3, 8

View the jewels that grace has set in the Redeemer's crown—made out of the most depraved and abject materials! Who, for instance, were those Ephesians to whom Paul wrote that wonderful epistle?

The most foolish and besotted of idolaters—men debased with every lust—ripe and ready for every crime. How rich, how marvellous the grace that changed worshippers of Diana—into worshippers of Jehovah; magicians, full of sorcery and Satanic witchcraft—into saints of God!

 I admire and love the grace of God—and the longer I live, the more do I love and admire it. My sins—my corruptions—my infirmities—make me feel my deep and daily need of grace—and as its freeness, fullness, suitability and inexpressible blessedness are more and more opened up to my heart and conscience—so do I more and more cleave to and delight in it!