Priceless

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

How many times were you about and saw a penny lying on the ground, but it seemed unworthy to take the effort to lean down and pick it up? I mean it is only a penny, not a $100 bill right? How much effort was it really worth? I seriously doubt that you would lay down your life, or ask your son to lay down his for the sake of it. But look at what God did for you while you were still living in sin in Romans 5:8 above. What if we are that penny? 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. We are worth so much more to God. Look at all the promises He makes to us in Luke 12:22-32.

The Message translates Romans 5:7 “We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice.” We can grasp the nobility in dying for a cause, but what if they were living far from our cause, and opposing it consistently? Wouldn’t we consider it a waste of our time and move on? That realization of what God has truly done for you in the greatest act of love EVER, should move you to a humble heart out of thankfulness of the eternal forgiveness He provided while you are still in sin. John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Thank you Jesus!