SALVATION (Our Savior)

[7] Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to willingly give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a good man [one who is noble and selfless and worthy] someone might even dare to die. [8] But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

- Romans 5:7 - 8 [AMP]

I came across this passage again recently and it gives an overwhelming feeling of love. It may be hard to lay your life for someone, but if the person is a good person it makes that act somewhat easy to do. Now imagine doing this for someone who you think is a horrendous person, maybe by what they’ve done or what they are currently doing. Imagine doing this for someone who has broken your trust over and over again. I recently started a netflix series which was about a man who left his wife and kids for his co-worker who he got. They all lived in this little town, so they were always going to run into each other one way or the other, so it was like a wound that kept on reopening. Then I think someone made a statement about how married couples are to love each other like Christ loved the church. Then it dawned on me that Christ was actually this woman when He decided to sacrifice His LIFE for ‘this man’. He might have felt betrayed by our actions but His love for us was and still is stronger than whatever we have done or are going to do.

In Genesis 1:26 we see that we were created in God’s image. He then formed our vessels from the dust of the earth in Genesis 2:7. This means who we are is not the body we live in but our true form is a spirit being. Now the consequence of Adam and Eve’s sin was death. Meaning who they thoroughly were died and everyone after them. Now when Christ died for us He reconciled us back to God (as sin caused enmity between God and man), but through His resurrection we also are raised from death with Him and hence saved from the consequence of sin(death).

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more certain, having been reconciled, that we will be saved [from the consequences of sin] by His life [that is, we will be saved because Christ lives today].

- Romans 5:10 [AMP]

His death reconciled us back to God, just like in the old testament when animals were slaughtered to try and bring the Isrealites in right standing with God. Unlike those animals that could only try to bring us in right standing with God, Jesus resurrected and through His life we are saved (from the consequences of our sins, our way of life, ourselves). If while we were yet sinners He reconciled us through His death, then think of what benefits we get through His resurrection, that’s why He did not just die for us but had to overcome death by resurrecting.

The same way through one man(Adam) we were all made sinners, is the same way through another man(Jesus Christ) we are all saved, but in order to be saved you need to believe in Him into your life, He is waiting for you with arm stretched wide. You are special to Him and He wants to be part of your life, come to Him today and work in who you were created to be, be resurrected from the consequence of sin.