The God Of All Grace

The God of all grace . . . called you to His eternal glory in Christ.

1 Peter 5:10

God took Jacob through one experience after another to teach him to submit. Jacob even wrestled with God once, but his vow afterward rang hollow. Jacob didn’t deserve any more chances, but God’s grace stayed in effect. The Lord loved Jacob and disciplined him until he surrendered his life to God.

God is more forgiving than we can imagine. His continuing grace can take the sorry elements of a human life and use them for His blessed purposes. There is nothing more marvelous in the entire world than the power of God’s grace. He forgives, He lifts up, and He transforms.

The great love of God’s grace can heal broken hearts and mend broken lives. The Gospel comes to hearts that are broken by sin and despairing of redemption, and it offers peace, pardon, and purity. Only a God of grace could take a rebellious man like Judah and a wicked woman like Tamar and somehow use them in the line of our Blessed Redeemer. But that’s what God does—redeem people. He came to reclaim the broken lives of His children. He is the God of all grace, and His grace abounds to you and me.