1347A: Lest Any Man Should Boast
It is amazing grace, indeed. There have probably been more songs written about it than all of God’s other attributes combined. It is mentioned in nearly every sermon, referred to in virtually every Christian book. It is key to our salvation. Without it, we are lost and bound for an eternity in hell apart from God, yet once we experience it and are born again into the family of God, we become vessels hooked up to an unceasing flow of it, and the more of it we allow to flow through us, the more filled with joy we are, the more filled with peace we are, the more we are able to be literally changed in Christ-likeness. It produces spiritual fruit, but to whatever degree we revel in the fruit, we steal the rewards and lose the grace. Most Christians seem to understand what it means to be saved by grace, but beyond that, it seems a mystery indeed.