"God loves me. He made me this way. He accepts and approves of my life just the
way it is," are some of the misconceptions of "love" these days.
God does love me, but He never
has accepted and approved of my sin. One
day years ago, I realized my sin caused a wedge in our relationship. In fact,
we really didn't have one no matter what I told myself. I had to admit that if
I stood before God I would face hell. I
bowed my knee and asked God to save me, and forsook my sin. Our relationship is great, unless I sin
again. Even then, God is faithful to
forgive my sin and is willing to restore our relationship if I come to Him for
restoration.
I know God loves me because He
proved (commended) that long before I was even born. He did not accept me or approve of my
sin. However, because He loves me, He
provided a way for me to come to Him. Jesus died for me!
When I think on what Jesus
endured for me, I am ashamed that I would ever think that God would accept and
approve my sin. In fact, that is
redefining love to appease my guilty conscience. If I am ok as is, then Jesus would never have
had to die on the cross to pay for my sins.
I like to personalize verses at
time to help me understand them, for example today's verse would be: "But
God commendeth his love toward me, in that while I was yet a sinner, Christ
died for me."
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8.
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