This truth deserves our thoughtful attention and meditation. Have we meditated on the fact that everything that we are, all that we will be, the hope that is ours in Christ, the justification that comes to us because of Him, the adoption that is given to us in the Spirit, the assurance that we have that nothing will separate us from the love of Christ—all of these are a product of God’s sheer, undeserved mercy? None of them are in any way earned by us, nor could they be. None of them came because