bodies [meaning, total selves] as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship” (Rom. 12:1). Christians, says Paul, are to be moved and stirred to consecrated living by their knowledge of God’s love, grace, and mercy—the mercy of sovereign salvation, whereby God pardons, accepts, and exalts the undeserving and wretched, at fearsome cost to Himself. Insofar as there is a difference of nuance between the terms “love,” “grace,” and “mercy” of God, “love” means His