“For if, while 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!” Romans 5:10
How many people do you know who would do a good deed for you if you were at odds with them? Some, maybe. How about if you had talked about them in a very negative way? Definitely a few less than before. What about if you had been mean to them? Even fewer. How many people would do that good deed for you if you told others how much you hated that person? I can’t imagine very many at all.
Yesterday I wrote about how God sent Jesus to save us while we, the people He created, were doing those very things. That is a kind of love that we find hard to understand and that is because we are not God. God is God and God is love.
So what does that do for us? Jesus, by having died on the cross, secured a way for each of us to be justified and through His perfect life and resurrection we are able to have a personal relationship with God. Again, this is a kind of love that we find hard to understand, but I am pleading with you to stop trying to understand it and instead accept it so that you are able to have that wonderful relationship with God. When we accept His gift now while we are here on earth, we are going to be able to be in heaven with Him when our time on earth is done.
Jesus gave up everything for us, so we can have a personal relationship with God, I encourage you to accept the gift.