Just yet the justifier of the ungodly. What glad tidings are here? Here is grace. God's free love to the sinner. Divine bounty and goodwill, all together irrespective of human worth or merit. This is the scriptural meaning of that often misunderstood word, grace. This righteous free love has its origin in the bosom of the Father where the only begotten has His dwelling. It is not produced by anything out of God Himself. It was man's evil, not his good, that called it forth. It was not the like drawing to the like, but to the unlike. It was light attracted by darkness and life by death. It does not wait for our seeking. It comes unasked as well as undeserved. It is not our faith that creates it or calls it up. Our faith realizes it as already existing in its divine and manifold fullness. Horatius Bonar.