If the offended God, who is holy and perfect, can extend His grace (His ill-deserved favor) to sinners like us, then what should we, the recipients of such grace, extend to those who have sinned against us? Are we full of His deep grace?

To be gracious is nice, attractive, and pleasant. But to extend true grace (in the biblical sense), is far deeper than a mere social grace; it’s even more than undeserved favor. We’ve all been the recipients of kindness or gifts that were not particularly deserved; blessings that seem to come from nowhere. For these we should be grateful, and, as a matter of course, we should frequently be the source of such blessings to family, friends, and strangers. Deep grace takes it several steps further; this kind of grace is ill-deserved favor. It’s what Jesus extends to His people on the cross. He shows favor to those who have really offended and sinned against Him, and He shows that favor at His own expense.

6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

―Romans 5:6-11

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