“Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me”
God’s Amazing grace is something that Paul never got over. Eighty-five times he wrote about grace. You never have to go far in any of his letters without running into the word, “grace”. Three times he recorded the time, when on his way to Damascus to imprison Christians he came face-to-face with the Amazing Grace of God; grace, that saved even a wretch like him.
To Paul, that was the most amazing thing about grace, that God could save and change and use even a person like him. Paul’s own description of himself was that among sinners, he was chief (I Timothy 1:15). And yet God by His grace took mercy upon him.
If God’s grace was sufficient for Paul, a persecutor of Christians, then surely his grace is sufficient for us as well! “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast” Ephesians 2:8-9
“Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
T’was blind but now I see”