Glorifying God's Grace
H. W. Beecher. Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved. Dr. Kane, finding a flower under the Humboldt glacier, was more affected by it because it grew beneath the lip and cold bosom of the ice than he would have been by the most gorgeous garden bloom. So the most single, struggling grace in the heart of one far removed from Divine influence may be dearer to God than a whole catalogue of virtues in the life of one more favoured of heaven. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. WEB: to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,