Creation and Grace

If grace is God's free favor to his creatures, then creation is grace. We could never merit being made by God; it was not necessary that he make us. He did not need us. So in making us, he bestows an incomparabl favor on us: the opportunity to be his creatures, for whom he takes responsibility and for whom he cares. He makes it possible for us to enjoy his favor, love, and happiness by giving us the opportunity of living in his communion of love. Above all, he enables us to praise and adore him and give him glory. All this is conferred by a greater upon a lesser, by God upon us. It is nothing less than grace. Adrio Konig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology, p. 53