Our little boy likes to say “I don’t deserve it,” when he gets something like a treat. He started saying this especially when he has had a bad day. At one point he said he didn’t deserve to be alive. I reminded him that none of us do. At one time I pointed to Him that we don’t deserve to be alive but God in his mercy and grace gives us life. Today when he got a treat he said he didn’t deserve it. My older son told him, it’s grace, getting what we don’t deserve. That’s why he was receiving a ginger cookie.
After getting another treat in the evening from my wife, he said he didn’t deserve it again and I answered him with the usual. His response was “Thank you for grace.”
Yep, that’s exactly right! It’s what I say every day. It’s what we all should say every day when we wake up.
“God, be merciful to me a sinner,” we should say like the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14. God showed him mercy. He went home justified (not the one who claimed to be good). Ephesians 2:8 says that we are saved by grace through faith and this is not of ourselves, not a result of our own working out. It is a gift from God.
This reminds me of the chorus of the Hymn Grace Greater Than Our Sin:
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin.
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