I love to hear this man preach! When I read pages formed from his pen, I can hear him preaching in the background, and so, I enjoy his books as well.

As believers, we all dwell in a constant waterfall of grace. The grace of God swallows us every minute of our existence. We sing about it. We talk about. We define it. We speak of it often, especially in preaching. As a result, we so often grow accustomed to it! If we are not prayerfully cautious and intentionally meditating upon it, we lose the majesty of it! It becomes mundane, routine, and ceases to amaze us!

That’s why it is always a good thing and never a waste of time to take a fresh look at the grace of God. Ferguson has delivered to us a wonderful opportunity to do so. While Ferguson’s work is filled with Scripture, his means of providing a fresh look at grace is by using an older look at grace as his framework. The chapters are divided according to stanzas from a poem by Emmanuel T. Sibomana (1915-1975), a African pastor.

“O How the Grace of God Amazes Me”

O how the grace of God amazes me!

It loosed me from my bonds and set me free!

What made it happen so?

His own will, this much I know,

Set me, as now I show, At liberty.

My God has chosen me, Though one of nought,

To sit beside my King In heaven’s court.

Hear what my Lord has done

O, the love that made him run To meet his erring son!

This has God wrought.

Not for my righteousness, For I have none,

But for His mercy’s sake, Jesus, God’s Son,

Suffered on Calvary’s tree—Crucified with thieves was he—

Great was His grace to me, His wayward one.

And when I think of how, At Calvary,

He bore sin’s penalty, Instead of me,

Amazed, I wonder why He, the sinless One, should die

For one so vile as I: My Savior He!

Now all my heart’s desire Is to abide

In Him, my Savior dear, In Him to hide.

My shield and buckler he, Covering and protecting me;

From Satan’s darts I’ll be Safe at His side.

Lord Jesus, hear my prayer, Your grace impart;

When evil thoughts arise Through Satan’s art,

O, drive them all away And do you, from day to day,

Keep me beneath your sway, King of my heart.

Come now, the whole of me, eyes, ears, and voice.

Join me, creation all, With joyful noise:

Praise Him who broke the chain Holding me in sin’s domain

And set me free again! Sing and rejoice!

The book is worth the poem.

For each chapter, Ferguson elaborates on the theology and biblical references within the poem. It is a beautiful, encouraging reminder of the richness and glory of God’s grace to us in Christ!