The truth is, even if we’ve borne many burdens while serving our Master, it has cost us nothing for Him to be so good and so generous with His grace. But it has cost Him everything. Jesus has labored long to fulfill the whole law for us, so that He could make His merit our own and credit us with His righteousness through faith. He has borne the burden of the cross for us, to atone for all our sins. Surely, we would all be lost in sin and shame had Christ not found us and called us by the Gospel into His holy Church.