Favor

(Pro 22:1 KJV)  A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

I don’t know if I have covered this before.  Even if I have, I’m going to look at it again.  I am referring of course to that word “favor.”  This is the word which the King James Bible usually translates “grace.”  It is the Hebrew word which is looked at as the Old Testament equivalent of the New Testament concept of grace.  It is the word that is used of Noah finding grace.

It jumps out at me because I have been discussing the place of Israel in the salvation message.  The person I was talking to was insisting that all Israel will be saved as it tells us in Romans 11.  I was telling him that for such an understanding as he had of that verse it had to involve what Calvin called “irresistible grace”.  Since he claims to not be a Calvinist, he didn’t like that.

Either way, grace is very evident in the Old Testament.  It talks about having God’s favor, and God, moving in benevolent and beneficial ways in the lives of those He extends His grace to.

So? That means that God has extended his grace even to you. I trust you have accepted the offer.