Three Lessons Grace Teaches Us (4)—Live Godly - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:11-13

Three Lessons Grace Teaches Us (4)—Live Godly
There is a third lesson which grace teaches its saved pupils. It teaches them to live godly. This opens up our relations with the world above. There is great force, beauty, and completeness in these words used by the inspired apostle. They present to us three great circles in which we are called to act: the world within, the world without, and the world above. They all must be taken together to see their divine beauty. There is really nothing left out. All we can possibly want to learn is taught in the school of grace if we will only accept the lessons. Let us bear in mind that the surest proof of our having received the salvation which grace brings, is our learning the lessons which grace teaches, those hallowed lessons of inward self-government, practical righteousness, and true godliness.

May God the Holy Spirit make us to understand the fullness and freeness of the salvation, and the purity and elevation of the lessons so we may more distinctly apprehend the hope which grace presents. The apostle speaks of it as "a blessed hope," and surely nothing can be more blessed than the "glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." This is the proper hope of the believer. And he is taught to look for it by the selfsame grace that has brought him salvation and that teaches him how to carry himself in reference to the world within, the world without, and the world above.

C. H. Mackintosh
Of grace then let us sing, a joyful, wondrous theme,Who grace has brought, shall glory bring, and we shall reign with Him.

T. Kelly