Theology 17: God is gracious

God is Gracious

2 Corinthians 8:9, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”

A parent’s love for their child is weird, isn’t it? Their goal is this: raise the child so that they don’t need the parent anymore. It’s a selfless kind of love. It’s a giving love. It’s why Scripture so often calls God our Father.

Yet parents fail so often because every single one of us is a sinner. Everyone loses their temper. We’re selfish. We’re imperfect. We don’t have that grace, that selfless love, that giving love.

But not God. He is gracious. It’s who he is. Grace means ‘undeserved love,’ and it’s how God treats us. Jesus, though rich, gave up everything and gave his life to give us everything. To give us forgiveness. To give us eternal life. His grace never fails.

A parent’s love for their child is the closest example of ‘grace’ that we see in this world. “Gracious” is the best definition of God in the Bible. Grace is at the heart of who God is. He gives and gives simply because that’s who he is. He gives blessings upon blessings to us in this life. He gives his own Son for us. He gives the promise of life.

That’s the God you have. A gracious God. Trust in our gracious God!