“By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8).
God’s grace is unmerited favor, thus it gives us much. However, it will never give us any cause to boast. If grace made us better in ourselves, it would work itself out of a job; we would merit something. God would have us know that by His grace we are what we are (1 Cor. 15:10), and He would have us strong in His grace (2 Tim. 2:1) so that we don’t lose the sense of unmerited favor and think that our blessings are merited (Gal. 5:4).
B. Warr