Hebrews 13:25 Commentary and Bible Study

Grace is our greatest need, our constant need, our ongoing need. We come to a throne of grace, and no other throne would offer us any hope. All God’s dealings with human beings must be on the basis of grace, for only grace can span the great divide between a holy God and unworthy sinners. For us who are members of this fallen human race it must be grace from beginning to end. GRACE is sometimes explained as God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense, but let us also add the element of our unworthiness. Grace is a constant surprise, a welcome surprise. It does indeed give us something that we could never afford. In a way it is utterly unreasonable. It is beyond our reach and not something that we could ever insist on. We are debtors to God, and debtors have forfeited all their rights. Our sins have placed us in a position where only God’s initiative could ever come to our aid. Our own good, our own eternal good has been taken completely out of our hands. If grace does not act first, then we are powerless, we remain dead and cut off from God for ever. But our God is the God of grace, who delights to show mercy to those who are without God and without hope in the world. It is according to the good pleasure of his will that he gives what no one could ever demand of him, so that no argument could be brought against his goodness. We need grace today, and we need grace to the last day of life, and our place in heaven will forever be on the basis of grace. Amen.