grand evidence that God looks on you with favor. “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12, 13). It is the eternal boon of God. But with this there is also another magnificent boon, as Karl Barth explains: “The grace of being permitted to believe in Christ is surpassed by the grace of being permitted to suffer for him, of being permitted