Saved By Grace, Called To Holiness
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- ‘By grace you have been saved through faith… for good works’ (2:8-10).
God calls us to live a ‘holy’ life. We cannot make ourselves holy. We are spiritually ‘dead’. We need to be ‘made alive’ – by God. Holiness does not come from ourselves. It comes from the Lord.
Long before we ever thought of loving Him – He loved us. Our love for Him is so changeable. His love for us is unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable. It is eternal. He loved us ‘before the foundation of the world’. He will love us ‘in the world to come’.
This is the love of God, the love which inspires us and enables us to live a ‘holy’ life (2:1; 1:4; 2:7). When we realize the truth concerning ourselves – ‘nothing good dwells within me’ (Romans 7:18) – and God – He is ‘rich in mercy’ (2:4) – , we will ‘praise His glorious grace’ (1:6).