Grace is God’s goodness in freely blessing people who do not deserve it. Grace is integral to God’s character. Peter says that God is ‘the God of all grace’ (1 Peter 5:10). God loves to give good gifts to people who do not deserve it. God shows Common Grace to all mankind, including the gift of physical life to all human beings, food and water, shelter, governments to rule and protect the people, and gifts of intelligence and scientific discovery. Ultimately, however, God’s Common Grace does not save humans. Rather they need to receive His Saving Grace. We cannot be saved by our own good works or character, but only by God’s specific act of grace in sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die in order to pay for our sins. We must place our faith in Him in order to be saved, but we cannot even boast in our faith - as that too is a gift of God by His wonderful grace (Ephesians 2:1-10).
