And that grace was the grace that superabounded when sin abounded. There isn’t any viable excuse that “oh, we’re out of water” when we realize that it has come time to bathe.
Oh, some PEOPLE can be very dry about grace. But that’s their problem with God. It doesn’t have to be my problem, or your problem.
I believe Calvin nailed some important points, even at the cost of emphasizing Romans (a book largely about God’s rights) over other biblical books that fill in details which are important in living the life bestowed by Christ.
And there are matters of relative emphasis. God is love; God has glory. The one is even more fundamental than the other. It is love which moves God to bestow glory, in a merciful manner, upon a race that in a mysterious manner (hinted at by the Garden story) chose to be very inglorious before they were incarnated themselves.
I try to handle it as carefully as I can. But dog my cat, I have a big heart, to the point of being very awkward with it. I think of trying to park a monster truck downtown.
That's part of the beauty of Him - He listened to a "stiff necked crowd" and gave them what they wanted to show them how sin abounded when we decided to "do it ourselves".
Along with Acts, Romans puts it in a nutshell and emphasizes that we are incapable of doing anything except to accept His Grace because He knows our sinful natures like we can never do - even as we lament, like Paul, that we keep finding ourselves doing that which we know is wrong and balking at doing that which we know is right - "The poor in spirit...."
We are encouraged to think and examine His Love from all angles because He is humble enough to know us and love us anyway.