Thanks for joining us for another daily encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled The Love is Real was written by Karen Huang.

I felt like the rug had been pulled from under me, Joji said.

The shock of the discovery was like a physical blow.

She'd found out that her fiancé was seeing someone else.

Joji's previous relationship had ended similarly,

so when she later heard about God's love at a Bible study, she couldn't help

wondering, is this another scam? Will I get hurt if I believe God when he says he loves me?

Like Joji, we may have experienced troubled relationships that left us feeling wary or even afraid of trusting someone's

promise of love. We may even feel this way about God's love, wondering where the catch is.

There is, however, no catch. Romans chapter 5, verse 8 says, that God demonstrated his love for us in this, while we were still

sinners, Christ died for us. Eventually, I realized God had already proven his love, Jogi says, by dying for me. My friend discovered that when

our sinful state separated us from God, he reached out to us by giving Jesus to die on our behalf.

Because of this, our sins are forgiven, and we can look forward to eternity with him.

Whenever we wonder whether we can truly trust God's love, let's remember what Christ did for us

on the cross. We can trust His promises of love, knowing that he's faithful.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Romans chapter 5, verses 6 through 8.

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 person,

though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die,

but God demonstrates his own love for us in this. though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die,

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