While We Were Still Sinners
One of my sigh-and-drift-off-into-dreamland songs is “Keep Breathing” by Ingrid Michaelson.
I want to change the world, instead I sleep.
I want to believe in more than you and me.
That would be me without Christ. I long to fix things. I long to make things better. But I feel so incredibly powerless on my own (which is quite accurate). I can help you put a Band-aid on your cut, but I can’t healthily stop all of your pain. Supposing I somehow eliminated your pain sensors, another problem arises in that you wouldn’t know when to do things like take your burning hand out of the fire. I can’t fix it.
But I know Someone who can, and on Sunday, we celebrate the way He rose from, and conquered, death so that my sin could be erased and I could find hope.
I’m sorry that today’s post is so short, but sometimes you just have to get back to the basics and into God’s word. =) The passage below is Romans chapter 5, verses 1-2 and 6-11. Don’t skim over it just because you think you’ve heard it all before. Ask God to open your eyes and your heart- you can’t preach the gospel to yourself too many times.
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, wehave peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.
…You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! 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! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”
And to sum it all up, in two of my most favorite verses, Acts 13:38-39:
“Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law.”
Happy Easter!
