Amazing Grace

One of my favorite hymns is "Amazing Grace."  The hymn speaks of once lost and now found; once blind and now seeing.  Grace has delivered me and grace will see me home.  Indeed, the grace of God is amazing.  Grace was given and not deserved.  Grace was bestowed and not earned.  The Ephesian letter in chapter two speaks of "Amazing Grace."  God's verdict of sin was that we were dead, but now we are quickened.  Twas by grace that the transformation came.  Verses five and eight declare, "by grace ye are saved."  We were not saved by accident, but by grace.  We were not saved by merit, but by grace.  God is "the God of all grace."  I Peter 5:10.  Lives devastated by sin can be renewed by grace.  Hearts blackened by sin can be restored by grace.  Grace can take the broken life so marred by sin and return that life to a revived state.  God through His grace removes the flaws and scars that come by the avenue of sin, and comes to dwell within that renewed heart.  "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound."