Romans 5

Romans 5:6-11

"6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation."


Honestly, I'm super excited about Romans 5.  This is where things get even more awesome than they were the past couple days.

Now that Paul has established that our salvation is not through the law but through faith, he begins to talk about the hope we have in Christ. He says that we now are at peace with God.  That's a big relief!  The law showed us that there wasn't anything we could do to earn salvation.  We were eternally separated from God and we were hopeless.

Here is where verse 8 comes in.  It's honestly one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible

Jesus Christ came and died for us while we were far from God.  Basically we were enemies of God.  But he still chose to make a way for us to be with Him for all eternity because He loves us that much. Now we have peace with God, not by anything we did, but by His love for us.

We are saved from the wrath of God because Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross for us.

I had to stop and think about that for a while.

It's hard to think of myself as someone worth dying for, but apparently I am.  But what's even more amazing is this: Even at my darkest point, I was still worth dying for.

Well I hope you got just as much, if not, more than I did out of this.

Thanks for reading!
-JDWayt