Grace has two sides, a giving side and a receiving side. God gives. We receive. How do we receive God’s grace? By faith. Faith is the only appropriate response to the grace of God for it is the only response that appropriates the grace of God. We must believe in order to receive. The gracious pardon, power and provision that God freely offers us must be received by faith in order for us to personally experience it. We are included in it when we trust that because of His grace given to us in Christ, our sins are forgiven, and our future is secured. We live by faith in Him and look to Him in faith for everything we need, confident that His grace will deliver it.
