The thing is - once in His hand - you cannot be let go. The Lord is always with you. Grace loves a challenge and is ever-waiting for loving opportunities to extend unmerited favor to us. Everything about this loving kindness of God our Savior demonstrates rich and noble blessings which ascend to a level of unreachable peaks. It is a term of magnanimity and diety. We receive its bounty without obligation and our Father expects nothing in return. Aristotle defined it as “something that is conferred freely, with no expectation of return, and finding its only motive in the bounty and free-heartedness of the giver.”
Grace is best defined in the singular event which was a total course-changer of human history - the Incarnation. Of this expression of grace, God sent His son to redeem His people - without human merit. “But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace - which is by one man - Jesus Christ, abounded unto many.” - Romans 5:15 In this wellspring of benefits, grace delivers the greatest of gifts - that of salvation. Once in His hand - Grace walks with us.
"Grace loves a challenge and is ever-waiting for loving opportunities to extend unmerited favor to us." The way you animate "Grace" was great as if Grace was waiting just around the corner for an opportunity to showoff its greatness. Good word!
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