His Inexpressible Gift

Many things of God are inexpressible, but none as much as salvation. Most of us are at a loss for words to describe it. The best we can do is to find something with which to equate it. Paul does this with the Corinthian church (2 Cor. 9:6-15).

We shouldn’t have to guilt people into giving, but when we do, the giver should never respond out of “compulsion” (v. 7). By divine design, giving is the natural response to having been given an “inexpressible gift” (v. 15). As God would see it, those who give for any other reason are simply ungrateful for what they have received. Now that has to be disheartening to the Giver of “every good gift and every perfect gift” (James 1:17).

And God is able to make all grace abound to you…He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God…Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift (vv. 8,10-11, 15).

God’s gift of salvation is “the inexpressible gift” that keeps on giving!