God will always be Himself, and grace is an attribute of his Holy being. He can no more hide His grace than the sun can hide it’s brightness. Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.
…No one has was ever saved other than by grace, from Abel to the present moment. Since mankind was banished from the eastward Garden, none has ever returned to the divine favor except through the sheer goodness of God. And wherever grace found any man it was always by Jesus Christ. Grace indeed came by Jesus Christ, but it did not wait for his birth in the manger or His death on the cross before it became operative. Christ is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. The first man in human history to be reinstated in the fellowship of God came through faith in Christ.
In olden times men looked forward to Christ’s redeeming work; in later times they gaze back upon it, but always they came and they come by grace, through faith.
- A.W. Tozer
I came across this quote from A.W. Tozer yesterday that speaks of Grace more elegantly than I ever could.
Grace is an essential part of God’s holy being.
I love that line, “He can no more hide his grace than the sun can hide it’s brightness.”
He couldn’t hide it if he wanted to. It’s who he is. He is a God of grace.
And why do we hide? Why do we try to run away from God’s grace?
It’s a question I’ve pondered for years. Perhaps we have a favorite sin that we can’t release or a secret that we don’t want anyone to know about. Regardless, many of us try to hide from God’s grace. We try to shield ourselves from the light of the sun.
So here’s to all of us embracing God’s saving, redeeming, and liberating grace.
