Knowing God

by J.I. Packer

Those who suppose that the doctrine of God’s grace tends to encourage moral laxity (“final salvation is certain anyway, no matter what we do; therefore our conduct doesn’t matter”) are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure. And the revealed will of God is that those who have received grace should henceforth give themselves to “good works” (Eph 2:10; Titus 2:11-12); and gratitude will move anyone who has truly received grace to do as God requires, and daily to cry out thus— Oh! to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be;