Loneliness. Failure. Disappointment. Emptiness inside. Hunger to be known. Humanity runs on trying to sate these desires, trying to fill a gap in life with anything we can get our hands on.
That gap is sin, and it will forever hold satisfaction out of our reach. Why? Because God is the only thing that can fill the emptiness in our hearts, and He cannot just disregard the evil of sin – a price must be paid. But the beautiful part about the gospel is that “God demonstrates his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8).
There’s nothing we can do about the sin situation on our own. We are weak and powerless, too wrapped up in ourselves to lift a finger without carrying sin along. But God loves us with a love greater than anything we can hope to understand – a love so great that he sent his son Jesus to die a horrible death on the cross and bridge that gap of sin. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but gain everlasting life.” (John 3:16). So long as we remain wallowing in our sin, the price is death and an eternity of punishment. But with the gift of God’s grace and mercy and Jesus’s sacrifice, we are forever redeemed and embraced as children of God. This salvation has nothing to do with our actions; again, we are powerless on our own. Salvation is merely an acceptance of what God is handing to us freely: a life forever with him, free from the loneliness and failure and emptiness weighing us down.
The even greater news of the gospel is that Jesus’s sacrifice didn’t end with his death on the cross. He rose again after three days! He paid the price, redeemed our souls, and returned to reign with the Father in heaven. Romans 6:8-11 sums up the power of Jesus’s resurrection perfectly: “If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Faith in Jesus Christ is not a sad, dead faith, but a living joy that will change your life forever!
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