Let me tell you one thing I absolutely love about GOD: we can live lives rejecting Him, despising Him, ignoring Him, and even mocking Him with our words and lifestyles, but the moment we turn our faces to Him, fall down in repentance, and embrace Him in faith... well, our lives are transfigured. I think it's so beautiful how GOD does not hold grudges; He does not give us what we deserve. He gives us mercy, keeping what we deserve from us, and then He goes even farther, extending grace: bestowing upon us favor we do not deserve, granting us those things that we do not deserve. He is so wonderful.