If you would understand grace, you must know what it is to come to God as a sinner and nothing else. There is infinite grace in the heart of God for sinners. Sinners only are welcome to the Savior. The sinner suits the Savior, and the Savior suits the sinner. God is not giving blessing to those who deserve it, but to those who deserve it not. The condition is that we are sinners, unrighteous and undone. If we confess this to God and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ we are blessed.
The gospel does not bring a work to do, but a word to believe about a work done. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God Hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare... at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”
The faith by which we are saved is faith in Jesus and His blood. The believer rests upon Christ and the work He has done, and needs nothing else to commend him to God.
Christ and His redemption work are sufficient to put him in a place of perfect acceptance. If we attempt to add anything of our own for acceptance—our righteousness, religious works, or feelings even—our eyes are closed to Christ and we are off the ground of grace. “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Gal. 5:44Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. (Galatians 5:4).
Thank God for the gospel of His grace; by which we are saved, possess an object for our hearts, and rejoice in hope of the glory! Are you sure, dear reader, that you are on the right road? Are you depending upon your works, or have you come to Christ to rest only in Him?