We often sing:
“His grace has no measure
His mercies no end.
His love has no boundaries known unto men.
For out of the infinite riches in Jesus,
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.”
 
Grace: God’s unmerited favor!  We can do nothing to earn it?  It is God’s gift unto salvation.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.”  
Ephesians 2:8
 
We looked into Scripture a while back concerning grace, but there is much more so I would like to see what Scripture will open to us today.  This, too, will be only a glimpse for His grace gives us eternal encouragement beyond our finite comprehension.
 
Psalm 84:11 tells us that God’s grace is freely given:
“For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold 
From those who walk uprightly.”
 
Grace empowers men for service as Paul tells us of one of his experiences in 1 Corinthians 3:10,
“According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation and another builds on it.  But let each one take heed how he builds on it.”
 
Paul makes it clear Who that foundation is,  
“For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”  Vs. 11
 
As for building on this foundation read Vs. 12-15!  There is a warning here and it is speaking of the works we do as we build on the Foundation.  Remember works will not get us to heaven only the grace of God by faith as seen above.  BUT once saved we are called to do good works!  As Vs. 13 states,
“Each one’s work will become manifest for the Day will declare it…”
 
Did you know that grace may be rendered ineffectual?
“We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.”  
2 Corinthian 6:1
 
Paul speaking to the Galatians were tempted to add the law to God’s grace,
“I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing.”  
Galatians 2:21
 
In Galatians Chapter 5 Paul is encouraging them to stand fast in the liberty that they have in Christ.  In Vs. 3-4 he warns of the consequences,
“And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.
You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.”
 
And grace can be abused! (The Book of Jude sounds the battle cry for the faith.)
Verse 4 tells us,
“For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
 
As for we Believers, let us do as Scripture tells us in 2 Peter 3:18,
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen”
 
Thank you most loving God for your awesome grace in which we stand!  All honor and glory to you most gracious and Holy God.  Amen