... absolute (what He is in Himself), and relative (how He relates to the world and men). One of His absolute attributes is love.
1 John 4:8 ... God is love.
When God relates that love to you and me, it becomes grace and mercy. God in his mercy does not give us what we deserve, and God in grace gives us what we do not deserve.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
We are justified without a cause. There is no cause in us that would merit the salvation of God. It is all of grace.
The following song, decoupaged on a piece of wood and displayed on my lamp table, lauds my favorite hymn.
AMAZING GRACE by John Newton
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wrech like me.
I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
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