Breathtaking Grace: God’s Lavish, Unearned Forgiveness

The post opens with a single word, grace, and reflects on its power to free captives, bring life to the lifeless, and restore a weary soul. It points to Ephesians 1:7-8, which speaks of redemption through Christ’s blood and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of God’s grace.

The author suggests that even a small measure of grace can lift a person out of despair and set them free. Yet God has not given grace sparingly. The post describes it as poured out lavishly and extravagantly, so that every sin is forgiven, past, present, and future, leaving the believer’s record clean and salvation secure.

The author also stresses that grace is not doled out in small pieces or made dependent on holiness first. It is described as unconditional, undeserved, unearned, and unmerited. Using images of a slave auction and a garbage dump, the post portrays God as the one who searches for, redeems, and chooses people from the rubble of their own making, at a great cost that was part of a plan set from the beginning of time.

The piece closes with the hymn “Amazing Grace,” reflecting on being lost and now found, and blind but now seeing.

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