Encouraging Word for the Week, I am Rachel Tolliver,

“Grace—don’t you dare treat it lightly. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said it like this: we deserved nothing but punishment, hellfire, and eternal banishment from the presence of God. That’s the truth. We weren’t just lost—we were condemned. We weren’t just broken—we were bound for destruction.”

 “But God—hallelujah! —God, out of His own love, His own grace, His own wondrous mercy, reached down into the pit and pulled us out. Not because we earned it. Not because we deserved it. But because He is good, and His mercy endures forever!” “That’s grace, y’all. Grace that snatches you from judgment. Grace that rewrites your story. Grace that says, ‘You’re guilty, but I’ll take the punishment. You’re filthy, but I’ll wash you clean. You’re banished, but I’ll bring you home.’”

 “Paul said in Romans, ‘Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.’ That means grace outruns your past, overrules your shame, and overwhelms your sin. You didn’t climb your way to salvation—grace carried you!” “So don’t walk like you’re ordinary. Don’t live like you’re unloved. You’ve been graced—radically, undeservedly, eternally. And that grace ought to make you shout, make you serve, and make you surrender!”