Thank God—it is almost Sunday! So as to help prepare us for the Lord's Day's church worship, here are some good words from the great Jonathan Edwards, as they are taken from his sermon entitled, "God Glorified in Man's Dependence":
"The grace of God in bestowing this gift [of grace in Christ] is most free. God was under no obligation to bestow it. He might have rejected fallen man as He did the fallen angels. We never did anything to merit His grace; it was given while we were yet His enemies, and before we had so much as repent-ed."It was from the love of God, who saw no excellency in us to attract it [His grace]; and it was without expectation of ever being requited [paid back] for it. And it is from mere grace that the benefits of Christ are applied to such and such particular persons. Those who are called and sanctified are to attribute it to the good pleasure of God's goodness alone, by which they are distinguish-ed. God is sovereign, and He has mercy on whom He will have mercy."
