Sola Gratia Grace alone This is a proclamation that salvation is solely by grace alone. Grace being an unmerited favor/gift given to an undeserving party. We are that undeserving party who has received salvation and forgiveness of sin not based on any merit of ours but as a gift undeserved. We did absolutely nothing to deserve this great salvation yet God in his kindness chose to grant it to us. So salvation is by grace alone and not by anything we have done. We didn’t muster enough inner strength or merits to acquire this. It was a gift, given to us, out of God’s unmeasurable kindness. This is a reality I constantly struggle with not just in regards to salvation but on an everyday basis. How can still God tolerate a sinner like me? How can he still call me his own knowing what I’ve done even after he granted me this great salvation? Why does he still encouraging me to persevere despite the failures I constantly rememver? Why does he grant me favor knowing how sinful I am? It’s his grace. Grace doesn’t look at our merits our ability to hold up the requirements of God’s law. How good or how versed we are in churchyanity. Grace looks at a sinner who doesn’t deserve God’s goodness and mercy and says “Let’s show this person how great your goodness and mercy is” it runs out to meet you in your distress, in your miserable and damnable state and clothes you with abundance of mercy and goodness! It claims you as a member of God’s family! It’s my struggle but also my joy. My battle and my hope. We don’t deserve His kindness yet his grace is what gives us access into his glorious kingdom. It opens the doors to the joys in store for all who hope in Him. Let’s not forget that we all need and benefit so much from God’s amazing grace. It’s by grace we‘ve been saved through faith and that not of our selves but it is a gift of God. #christianartist #christianart #christiancreative #illustration #illustrator #digitalpainter #solas #chrsitiangraphics #churchcreative #crtvchurch #prochurchmedia #photoshop #photoshoppainting #photoshopartist #worship #grace #drawmore #desiringjesus #jesuswins #jesusfollower #jesusart #deogloriaart https://www.instagram.com/p/CUAf739F0_x/?utm_medium=tumblr
