While we were yet sinners...
I am reading a book by Elyse Fitzpatrick called Comforts from Romans . The more I read Romans the more I am totally amazed at our great God and the more I want to worship Him. From chapter 5: v. 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. v.8-10 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Mind boggling! God in His infinite wisdom, provided a way for sinful man to be reconciled to Himself through the sacrificial death of His only Son, His perfectly obedient Son, His sinless Son. He poured out His wrath for sin on His beloved. Jesus, who has always been and will always be, who created mankind, humbled Himself, took on th...