Abounding grace!
(Albert Simpson, 1843-1919)
grace abounded much more!"
Romans 5:20
GOD loves to take the worst of men--
and make them into the most magnificent
monuments of HIS redeeming love and grace!
HE loves to take the victims of
satan's hate and the most fearful
examples of his power to destroy--
and use them to illustrate HIS
divine mercy.
HE loves to take the things
in our own lives that have been
the worst and the most vile--
and to transform them so that
we shall be the opposites
of our former selves.
The sweetest spirits--
are made from the most
stormy and self-willed;
the mightiest faith--
is created out of the wilderness
of doubts and fears;
the divinest love--
is transformed out of stony
hearts of hate and selfishness!
The grace of GOD is equal to the
most uncongenial temperaments and
to the most unfavorable circumstances.
Its glory is to transform a vile sinner
into a holy saint, and show to men
and angels of ages yet to come,
that where sin abounded--
grace abounded much more!
THY righteousness also, O GOD,
is very high, who hast done great things:
O GOD, who is like unto THEE!
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