If Salvation is all of Grace, Why Not me?

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. - Romans 9:16

    God does not save any man because there is anything in that man that deserves salvation but he saves sinners because he delights to show mercy. The reason for redemption is found in him, not in us. His mercy planned salvation, his grace chose us, his love gave Christ to redeem us, and his power keeps us. "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy."

    If you have been looking for some reason in yourself why God should show mercy to you, you’re looking in vain! If you have weighed your works and considered your contributions to the kingdom in order to merit God's favor, you'll only be disappointed in the end! The Lord saves whomsoever he will. His own declaration to Moses is, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

    Now then, if it be God's will to save sinners who have no good in them, those who do not merit or deserve his love; if he delights to show mercy to all who call upon him, why should he not save me and you? I certainly qualify as the chief of sinners. If God is pleased to provide a full Saviour, I can provide an empty sinner. If Christ died for the ungodly then he certainly died for me! If Christ is the Friend of sinners, I lay claim to his friendship. This religion that requires merit and personal righteousness offers me no hope. But God's free grace to the undeserving, God's sovereign mercy to the ill-deserving, and Christ's effectual atonement for the helpless bring me to his Throne of Grace crying, "God be merciful to me, the sinner."

    If all the fitness he requires is to feel your need of him, then why not me?

"Come ye sinners poor and needy
Weak and wounded by the fall:
Jesus ready stands to save you-
Full of pity, love and power."