EPHESIANS 2:1–10

God dealt in judgment at Babel when He scattered the people and
confused their language, but God dealt in mercy and grace as He
called Abraham. Abraham did not receive God’s call because he
merited God’s esteem. Rather, in God’s foreknowledge He knew
Abraham and chose him for a special purpose. God’s election must
always be traced to God’s will and purpose. It is all of grace, for it is
by God’s sovereign choice.

It is the same with our salvation. If it were not for God’s grace, we
would be doomed to an eternity in hell. But notice what God has
done because of His grace: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and
hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:4–6).

God did not do this for us because we merited it—it was while we
were yet sinners that Christ died for us. It is important that we realize
that our salvation is all of grace.

Abraham was not chosen because he was a special kind of person
nor because he had a high IQ nor because he had great faith. It was
totally of the grace of God that He called Abraham out of idolatry,
and it is only of the grace of God that we have been called out to
salvation.

But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom. 5:20).

Theodore Epp
www.backtothebible.in