God is all about grace, and His grace is everlasting, eternal.
Notice that Isaiah prophesies about this everlasting kindness, or "chesed" in the original Hebrew, right after he speaks about Jesus our suffering Messiah, who was crushed for iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace (cf. Isaiah 53)
The grace that we receive from Christ Jesus is not a one-time thing, either.
Paul invites us to receive and keep receiving the twin gifts of righteousness and grace:
"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:17)
and also
"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" (Romans 5:20)
Notice that whatever the sin, the failure, the cause of God's wrath may have been, God's grace is overbounding, overflowing, ready to wash over us all the more and bless us!
"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream." (Amos 5:24)
We have been redeemed in Christ Jesus, and let us never stop receiving His everlasting grace!
"10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee." (Isaiah 54:10)
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