Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Romans chapter 5 verses 6 through 8. For while we were still weak at the right time,

Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person,

though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die. But God shows His love for us

in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. I just want to encourage you today.

That's whatever's going on in your life to stop for a moment and meditate on the love of God

for you. God demonstrates His love for us by Jesus doing the unthinkable for us. While we were weak,

while we were ungodly, while we were still sinners, those are the descriptions of us in this passage.

Weak ungodly, sinners, rebels against God, having transgressed the law of God,

having spurned the authority of God, the holy God of the universe, and we are sinners against Him,

guilty of rebellion and deserving of eternal, everlasting judgment and condemnation.

We were running from God, and the good news of Romans 5, 6 through 8 is that God has come running

after us. He's done the unthinkable. He has sent His Son, God in the flesh, to die for us,

not for us in all of our goodness, but for us in all of our wickedness and evil and sinfulness.

God demonstrates, portrays, shows His love for you and me. While we were sinners against Him,

Jesus died for us. Just let this soak in in a fresh way today. God loves you, God, the intimately

holy, sovereign creator of all, though one true, capital G God who is worthy of all worship and all

creation, who is all powerful, all knowing, who is holy and just and pure beyond our imagination.

He, God, loves you so much that He gave His only Son to die for you. Oh, live today in light

of God's love for you. I think about John, the disciple, saying throughout his gospel,

he's the disciple whom Jesus loved. Like this was his identity. He saw himself as one loved by

Jesus. See yourself that way today and live in light of it. God, help us, help us today to live

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