“Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and to make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God’s kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) in Knowledge of the Holy, excerpt from “The Grace of God” section of chapter 19.
I read some from A. W. Tozer today as I’m hunting pheasant with Randy Discher. Tozer is his favorite! When I read this chapter on the grace of God, this section moved me because generosity in the New Testament is rooted in grace.
Most generosity in our culture today is directed to those society says are “deserving” of support. As I give thanks today for the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, I am also celebrating that God extended His love and kindness to me when I was undeserving.