GOD IS GRACIOUS

GOD IS GRACIOUS 

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, 
And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who long for Him.
Isaiah 30:18 NASB

All that God wanted man to do was to believe in Him. What a man believes, moves and rules his whole being, enters into him, and becomes part of his very life. Salvation could only be by faith; God restoring the life man had lost; man in faith yielding himself to God's work and will. The first great work of God with man was to get him to believe. This work cost God more care and time and patience than we can easily conceive. All the dealings with individual men, and with the people of Israel, had just this one object, to teach men to trust Him. Where He found faith He could do anything. Nothing dishonored and grieved Him so much as unbelief. Unbelief was the root of disobedience and every sin; it made it impossible for God to do His work.  The one thing God sought to waken in men by promise and threatening, by mercy and judgment, was faith.

"Of the many devices of which God's patient and condescending grace made use to stir up and strengthen faith, one of the chief was-the Covenant."

-Andrew Murray 

"God's love for man is the first motive for His acting in grace on behalf of man."

-Charles Ryrie  

A M A Z I N G  G R A C E !