Thanks for joining us for today's devotional reading from Our Daily Bread.

It was written by Karen Huang, and she titled it, Will You Still Love Me?

Ten-year-old Lin had finally been adopted, but she was afraid.

In the orphanage where she'd grown up, she was punished over the slightest mistake.

Lin-lin asked her adoptive mom, who was a friend of mine,

Mommy, do you love me?

When my friend replied, yes, Lin-lin asked, If I make a mistake, will you still love me? When my friend replied, yes, Linlan asked, if I make a mistake, will you still love me?

Although unspoken, some of us might ask that same question when we feel we've disappointed

God. Will you still love me? We know that as long as we live in this world, we'll fail in sin at times,

and we wonder, do my mistakes affect God's love for me? John, chapter 3, verse 16, assures us of

God's love. He gave his son, Jesus, to die on our behalf, so that if we believe in him, we'll receive

eternal life. But what if we fail him, even after we place our trust in him? That's when we need

to remember that Christ died for us, even when we were still sinners.

If he could love us at our worst,

how can we doubt his love today when we're his children?

When we sin, our father lovingly corrects and disciplines us.

That's not rejection. That's love. Let's live as God's beloved children,

resting in the blessed assurance that his love for us is steadfast and everlasting.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Romans Chapter 5, verses 6 through 11.

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. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood,

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