Romans 5:7-8. “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man 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.”
One of the yearly trips we did in my church youth group, was to go to Lake Powell. Some of the cliffs we would jump off ranged from 5 to 50 feet up depending on the water level. On a couple occasions, I witnessed kids falling off the cliffs from even higher places. Father's would risk there lives to jump in and save them. Sometimes they succeeded, many times they did not.
On another trip, a girl I had a crush on lost her brother. We had no idea where he went and all of us were searching through the night. Finally, forensic dive teams arrived and found him five feet from shore. The verses we were memorizing at the time were from Ps 46 and how God is a very present help in times of trouble. Even though one died, many came to know Him that day, and many more since.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps%2046:1-3&version=NKJV
The overwhelming fact that God loves us so much that he gave his only son to save us, we have all the confidence in the world he will absolutely care for us in every possible way. He will make sure we have what we need to grow and mature, both physically and spiritually. He will keep us safe. He will never let anything come into our lives that would hurt us in our relationship with him
God’s love for us goes way beyond the natural love a good father has for his children. The fact is, He loves us even when we are rebelling against every one of his commands. Every person who has been born since Adam sinned has inherited a sin nature that makes sin an attractive option.
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