God’s Marvelous Grace

Regarding God’s marvelous grace, the apostle Paul declared in Titus 2:11: “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” Grace is often defined as “unmerited favor” or a “free gift.” It has more specific application to the gift of salvation which God gives to men. It can have a generic application to other areas, i.e., God’s gift of making the sun to shine, the rain to fall, providing our food, etc. (cf. Matthew 5:45). Let us contemplate God’s gift of salvation for a few moments. Any gift that is offered and received has four elements, and each of these is biblically important: