Grace already given

Once I was in Memphis, Tennessee, and went with a friend into a diner for breakfast. I ordered bacon and eggs - just bacon and eggs. However, when my order arrived it came with something called 'grits' - a kind of porridge popular in the deep South. 'I don't think I ordered grits,' I exclaimed. The waitress replied, 'Maybe you didn't, but at breakfast time grits come with everything.' It's the same with grace. It comes with everything in the Christian life. It is there right now to help you ask God to forgive you for misunderstanding the gospel of free grace and come to the glorious realisation that you don't have to do anything to earn His love. You already have it. - Selwyn Hughes