Unique Grace

The church that I have been going to here in Raleigh has been doing a sermon series on Doctrine and the topic of grace keeps coming up. The fact that God sent his only son to die for my sins so that I could live with him forever should continually astound me, but the sad truth is that I seem to grow jaded to this miracle.

I am going to go out on a limb here and talk about things that might be theologically inaccurate, so forgive me if anything I say is wrong, these are just some musings on a thought I recently had that really made me appreciate God’s grace even more. I’ve been reading “Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained” by John Milton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_lost. I am on book 6 of 12 right now. So I’ll have to give a complete opinion of it once I am finished. It has been interesting to read about a subject (the fall of Satan) in which the Bible does not go into much detail. I admit this book is hard to understand, and I realize that I am not interpreting this line correctly, but it gave me an interesting thought. I think what is happening here is Satan (after rejecting God) has just been confronted by another angel.
“So spake the Cherub, and his grave rebuke
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
Invincible: abasht the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pin’d
His loss;….”

Mainly the words pin’d His loss got me to thinking. These words almost hint at a touch of remorse. I don’t think satan feels any remorse for rejecting God, but it got me to thinking. God did not send his son to save the fallen angels. The fallen angels will not be redeemed. God sent his son to save the fallen humans. God could have very well left us in that fallen state and he would have been completely justified to do so. But he didn’t. How amazing!! I Peter 1:10-12
“Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.”

The grace that God has shown us is so incredible, so unique that angels long to look, they long to look on something completely incomprehensible and unprecedented; God’s free gift of grace.