We Can Trust God's Promise of Grace

The Remnant of Israel 11I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? 3Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. 4But what is God's reply to him? I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. 6But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, 8as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor,eyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,down to this very day. 9And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap,a stumbling block and a retribution for them;10let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and bend their backs forever.