It is the great paradox of the Christian faith that God's grace is utterly free and undeserved and based on nothing (nothing at all) that we have achieved…

It's free and it will cost us everything. It's not within us and yet that is exactly where we will experience it. And when one is filled with the boundless confidence of Christian grace, one will be more acutely aware than ever of one's shortcomings, failures, inadequacies and sin.