Is God's Grace Cheap?

Alicia Swift
Aug 4, 2015
2 min read

CHEAP GRACE. Now that's an oxymoron. God's grace is NEVER cheap and never will be. It cost Him his only son. It cost Him watching His son die a horrific death. It cost His only son's life. How can any Christian feel comfortable with the term "cheap grace"? How dare we devalue what God did for us. When we use the term "cheap grace", we show how little we understand grace. God's grace was more costly than anything out there, being as it cost something that could not be replaced, a life.

What makes grace so valuable is the fact that even though we were SINNERS, ENEMIES and totally and utterly full of filth, Christ died for us! He didn't just die for His friends, something not even most of us would do, but he died for His ENEMIES. It cost Him everything, His life, his dignity, his reputation, his pride to give us GRACE. We totally didn't deserve it and we still don't.

Romans 5:6-9 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Grace isn't cheap, it's costly and it never loses it's value.

Just because a person takes grace and treats it badly, doesn't mean grace has lost it's value, it means the person doesn't value grace. The problem lies with the person, not the GRACE.

Please everyone, I ask you today to really think about this and I petition that we stop demeaning God's wonderful, merciful GRACE by calling it CHEAP. God isn't cheap. Nothing He does has been cheap. We are the ones who are cheap.