Grace is love and forgiveness... just because.

Grace = unmerited + unearned forgiveness and love. 

I've been working through a "6 week course" on healing through faith, and I am on a part about giving yourself grace, and i've asked myself this before.. what is grace? 

And How do I give it to myself? 

I found myself defining it as:

unmerited = is not based on merit

---> merit being a quality of being good or worthy. Deserving of praise or reward. Above average performance. Good deeds regarded as entitlement. To deserve, to be worthy of. 

unearned = 

---> to earn being to gain deservedly in return for one's behavior or achievements. An activity to cause someone to obtain money. To obtain in return for servies or actions or deeds or work. 

Grace isn't something you gain because you worked for it or are worthy of it. Grace isn't something you can gain by being good or are entitiled to as an award for performance. 

Grace is love and forgiveness given purely because.. just because. 

There's no ulterior motive, there's no underlying reason, there's no "small print" or "only if". 

Grace is love and forgiveness... just because. 

You can't lose it by being ungrateful or turning away and doing something bad or wrong, because we do something bad or wrong all the time, called sin. And God loves us inthe middle of that because of what his son did. 

He covered us with the blood of his death and resurrection. 

That's pure untarnished love. 

That's why we can be covered by grace.