Unending Mercy

Ephesians 2: 4-10

These 6 verses contain some of the greatest glimpses into God's grace and mercy that we could spend our whole life dissecting them and still never reach the boundary of what is contained within. The vastness and wealth of God’s mercy is at the forefront of Paul’s words here to the church in Ephesus. His mercy and immeasurable grace stand in appalling contrast to our sinful and rotting flesh (v.4-5) and remind us of where we have come from. “BUT GOD,” is the only way by which we can remove our eyes from our lowly sinful state and see that God himself has chosen and called and placed us in the heavenly places right next to Himself. It is here that we glimpse this glory which we as saints look forward to but it is also the glory that we have the chance to live in right now. Yet, if we read these verses and think, if only for a second, that any of His mercy and grace was bestowed upon us because of something good within ourselves then we have missed the entire point. He lavishes His unending mercy because of HIS GOODNESS. If we had any good in us, if only just a drop, we would not need immeasurable grace. However, because of our immeasurable depravity we are able to experience a grace that never depletes and that our depravity can never run dry. At the end of creation as we know it, His storehouse of grace will be just as full as in the beginning, it is immeasurable. There is not one saint in time’s past that has ever reached the limit of God’s grace. Every new second of our lives as daughters and sons contains just as much grace as in that first moment where we were transferred from the domain of darkness into His glorious light (Colossians 2:13). Grace upon Grace.