THE MYSTERY OF GRACE

Grace has been described as God’s unmerited love; mercy and favour which he bestows upon humans to restore them back to him and to enable them relate with him and enjoy everything he has made available for them. It is God’s riches, righteousness and redemption given to man at Christ’s expense. Grace is what qualifies humanity to relate with divinity. It is the divine influence of God upon a man that qualifies him to enjoy both the help of God and men.Grace is the love of God combined with his mercy that serve as a divine elevator which he uses to lift sinners from the pit of sin and iniquities to the mountain of righteousness where they could stand guiltless to relate with him.Grace is what makes a man that is dead in sin to come alive in Christ, and relocates him to the heavenly realms to sit with Christ. It is the combination of the love of God with the mercy of God that produce grace; and when it is applied to a dead man in sin, he comes alive in Christ Jesus.Grace is God descending from his realm of glory to the sinful abode of man (earth) to save man without the invitation of man. We saw grace manifested in the beginning after the fall of the first man: Read more