p. 18 | Grace | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1863

Grace.

In the place of our sin grace meets us, nay, only there. It was in the land of the Chaldees, the place of his idolatry, that the grace of God met Abraham. It was on the way to Damascus, breathing out slaughter against the saints, that the grace of God met with Saul. It was to the woman, caught in the act of sin, that the Lord spoke in words of such marvelous grace, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." In the prison of Philippi, the scene of his hard-heartedness and cruelty to the saints, the grace of God found the poor heathen jailor, and made him to rejoice in God that very night with all his house. It was to the sinners of Jerusalem that the Gospel was to be first proclaimed, that, on the very spot where the deed of infinite guilt had been done, there grace might find the doers and tell its glad story in their ears.

Grace does not stand upon the distant mountain-top and call on the sinner to climb up the steep heights, that he may obtain its treasures; it comes down into the valley in quest of him; nay, it stretches down its hand into the very lowest depths of the horrible pit, to pluck him thence out of the miry clay.—Bonar.