Fri.-Sabbath, 7/31-8/2/20 Devotion

So as to help prepare us for the Lord's Day's church worship service, 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] is most free. God was un-der no obligation to bestow it. He might have rejected fallen man as He did the fallen angels. We never did anything to merit it; it was given while we were yet enemies, and before we had so much as repented. It was from the love of God, who saw no excellency in us to attract it; and it was without ex-pectation of ever being requited for it. And it is from mere grace that the bene-fits 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 good-ness alone, by which they are distinguished. God is sovereign, and has mercy on whom He will have mercy."