5.―According to what Measure is the Possession ours?

You may say, I have been a great sinner, can God forgive such a one? Here is His measure, ― “the riches of His grace.” Are you afraid that your need is so great that it would more than exhaust God’s riches to meet it? That cannot be. He is “rich in mercy;” He has “riches of grace;” do not fear Jesus, dispensing those riches, said of the poor woman, whose case is recorded in Luke 7, “Her sins, WHICH ARE MANY, are forgiven.” Saul of Tarsus, the chief of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15), was himself used of God to write the words of our text, and he includes himself in the circle of blessing, saying, “we.” But again, you may say, I fear that I am not worthy of such favor. It is quite true, you are not worthy; but mark well, the measure of forgiveness is not your worthiness. It is not according to anything you have been, anything you are, or anything you hope to be, but it is “according to the riches of His grace.”

6.― IN WHOM IS IT POSSESSED?
The words “In whom” of our text, refer to the previous verse, from which we find that it is “in the Beloved.” How fitting that it should be so. In days long gone by, when famine was in all lands, the word was, “Go unto Joseph” (Gen. 41:55). He who had been despised and sold, ―was the dispenser of the plenty which had been stored. Jesus has been crucified by the world; but the believer gladly owns that everything He possesses, he has in and through Christ Jesus, the Beloved One of God’s heart. Those who have their sins forgiven now, will throughout eternity adore Him who loved them, and gave Himself for them, ascribing all glory to Him.
J. R.