Grace

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2000

• 1 min. read • grade level: 10

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (Eph. 1:3³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (Ephesians 1:3)).

“It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace” (Heb. 13:9⁹Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. (Hebrews 13:9)).

I should like to see in saints a larger sense of the grace of God in having taken them up, so that they should be more bowed down in the thought of it. It is one thing to be crippled in the sense of what poor creatures we are, and quite another thing to be bowed down in the thought of that grace which met us where we were and put us where we are. We were dead in trespasses and sins when He picked us up and gave us life and fellowship with the body of Christ, and I should like to see that thought bowing down the heart of each saint.

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