Unmerited


Unmerited very simply means: undeserved. God’s Grace is undeserved favor from Him even though when Christ came we were all sinners.

You didn’t do anything to earn forgiveness from God, it was given to you. You weren’t changed but you were accepted by God as you are.

People have always assumed that they have been made acceptable if they are accepted by God. But that is not true! They have been accepted. Period. That’s what makes Grace unbelievable.

It’s more than you can possibly imagine. We know what God wants and we’re clearly not there, but we have been accepted by God. That is unbelievable. Even more than you know.

In songs and prayers I hear: Create in me a clean heart & make me clean again…and I often wonder what it means.

Because even when we were unacceptable to God, He gave us Jesus and Grace. We were not changed, that is not possible, no, we were given Grace. We are still the same people and we do what we do, but against all odds we have been forgiven and accepted.

Even the Apostle Paul initially had problems believing and understanding this! Remember his stones that he prayed about? No one actually knows what his stones were but he was afraid that he was unacceptable to God, but Jesus told him that His grace was sufficient and the “stones” were not changed.

So my point is that you need to believe what “has been done” for you. Not where you should be or want to be. You have been given grace & you are accepted by God.

Paul’s stones didn’t matter and neither do yours.