The Need of Grace

I wrote yesterday about God's unreasonable grace.  Why does God offer such grace without us taking a single step to earn it?

God gives it to us because God loves us. Because God loves us, God desires for us to be forgiven, to be healed, to be made whole. Because God knows us, God knows that known of that - healing, forgiveness, wholeness, holiness - is within our reach.

We cannot, on our own, become what God desires us to be. God knows we need grace.  God knows that all that God desires for us is impossible without grace, so God makes the impossible, possible.

Before grace can sanctify, before grace can justify, it must come before.  Grace precedes us.  All that God wants for us has already been done.  Grace is prevenient.

Why?  Because God knew it was necessary.