Shalom,

I LOVE today's devotional by our partner, Jerry Savelle!

YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!

For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8 AMP)

Have you ever heard someone say, “He got just what he deserved”? When people say this, they’re usually referring to the negative consequences that someone is suffering due to their own destructive actions or wrong choices.

While religion portrays God as an angry dictator, ready to punish those who disobey, nothing could be farther from the truth. God is our loving heavenly Father, who gave the life of His Son, Jesus Christ, so that we can experience the love and grace He so desires to give us.

One definition of grace is “unmerited favor.” God’s grace is something you didn’t earn; it is a gift from your heavenly Father. Any time you see the word grace in your Bible, you can interchange it with the word favor.

Simply put, God’s grace, His unmerited favor, is the manifestation of God giving you something you do not deserve.

HALLELUJAH! Because JESUS took what He did NOT deserve, OUR judgement for sin, WE get to have what WE do not deserve, HIS eternal LIFE! It is ALL ABOUT JESUS and the great LOVE He has for us! When we meditate on that enough, we will not allow a day to go by where we do not thank HIM for our eternal SALVATION and all that HE has provided for us in our new and BETTER Covenant! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Salvation Is Here":

Shalom in Him!