ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY HE SAVED US.

 
 
OCTOBER 24.
 

 According to his mercy he saved us.
Titus 3:5

 
GOD’S mercy is the fountain of every blessing.
 
We may trace every good thing that we receive or enjoy to this.
 
But the greatest thing that mercy ever did,
  was to save sinners.
 
Salvation is of the Lord.
 
It is a work of such magnitude,
  that no creature could ever have conceived it,
  nor could all the creatures of combined have executed it.
 
Jehovah, to display his wisdom, mercy, and
  power, determined to save;
  and to save according to his mercy,
  which always pities the poor,
  sympathizes with the miserable, and
  confers its blessings upon the unworthy.
 
If salvation was by desert, or
  on the ground of some excellent possessed, or
  for the sake of something the saved ones were to do,
  we must sit down in despair;
    for what do we deserve, but hell;
    what do we possess, but sin;
    what can we do,
  that is not polluted and worthless.
 
But now salvation is according to mercy,
  the vilest may hope;
  the most unworthy may enjoy the blessing.
 
Mercy can give what we never could expect or deserve.
 
Let us therefore expect to be saved by the mercy of God,
  through regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
 
By grace are ye saved.
 

      Tis not by works of righteousness

      Which our own hands have done;

      But we are saved by amazing grace

      Abounding through his Son.

 
James Smith 1849