The God of All Grace
John Newton

1 Peter chapter 5, verse 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

The great God is pleased to manifest himself in Christ as the God of all grace. This grace is manifold, pardoning, converting, restoring, persevering grace, bestowed upon the miserable and worthless.

Grace finds the sinner in a hopeless, helpless state, sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death. Grace pardons the guilt of sin, cleanses the pollution of sin, and subdues the power of sin.

Grace sustains the bruised reed, binds up the broken heart, and fans the smoking flax into a flame. Grace restores the soul when wandering, revives it when fainting, heals it when wounded, upholds it when ready to fall, and at last makes it more than conqueror over all opposition, and then bestows a crown of everlasting life.

But all this grace is established and displayed in the Lord Jesus. Without Him living, dying, rising, reigning, and interceding in the behalf of sinners, such astonishing grace would never have been known.

By the grace of God, I am what I am.