Aggressive forgiveness

Is God's grace amazing to me? What God did through Jesus in this world, on the cross, and through the ressurection, does it all truly inspire me? Can I fully grasp the hugeness and greatness of the gospel? See, I don't think any of us can ever fully appreciate the awesomness of God's grace. It's just too awesome. Look how simple the phrase is: God's grace. Does that small phrase ignite our minds to ponder how glorious it really is. In Ephesians it says that the main reason we have been redeemed from sin and death and given eternal life is to "show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." How great is His grace? I think that I live most of my life oblivious of how much I needed and still need and will need His grace. Do I really believe that I was a wretch, an enemy of God worthy of death, evil, full of disobedience, and headed straight for hell where I deserved to be. I still do some pretty wretched things that make me feel very unworthy of God's favor, but this is the point right here! Our complete lack of merit as candidates for eternal life with a perfectly holy, just, and good God is exactly what makes God's grace so amazing! Because even though we were despicable and unworthy, God still gave grace. All the glory to Him! And how perfect and powerful is His grace? There is absolutely nothing, no sin at all, that could keep you and me from God's grace. We can't be bad enough. In Romans 5, the message version says this: "All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end." Sin doesn't have a chance. Grace wins hands down every time. Grace is inviting us all. The hole is never deep enough, the darkness is never black enough, the haze is never thick enough, the wound is never painful enough to conquer the aggressive forgiveness of God. He went on the offensive for our lost cause, faced death, and won, hands down!