Where is God?

Romans 5:8 - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Have you ever wondered if God truly loves you? Have you ever gone through a time in your life that made you feel that maybe God was ignoring you? Maybe a loved one really close to you died, you're having a hard time in your marriage, your job situation isn't very good. Whatever it is, you feel like God may have abandoned you.

Sometimes it's hard to imagine a God who is truly loving and who truly cares about our lives and our situations when everything seems to be going wrong. “Where are you, God?” We might ask. “Why are you letting this happen to me?” Whatever variation of this question may fit how you have felt... I'm sure you have asked it. We all have asked it in some way. You may have even come to a place in your life when you've doubted God's love for you.

We look all around us in the world, too, and see nothing but evil. We see nothing but people hurting people... we see poverty and people dying from malnourishment and the like. Does God really love us?

The answer is an unequivocal YES! Romans 5: 8 says - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” He has already shown His absolute, undying love for us! He sent Jesus Christ to DIE for our sins. And if you are not familiar with the term “sin”, it simply means – missing the mark. God has set a standard based on Himself and there is nothing in humans terms that we can do to meet that mark – or standard. So, God Himself had to be the standard. He had to be the sacrifice that we just simply can not be! Jesus, the perfect embodiment of God, died and suffered so we don't have too. It's pretty simple really. I love that about God. He made it so simple for us and made it so free to accept. Why do you suppose our world rejects it so adamantly?

Whatever it is that we go through in life... all the hard times – as devastating as it may be – we go through it so we can grow and learn to trust God who has already paid the ultimate price for us... He has already shown his inconceivable love by doing an inconceivable thing. God Himself in the form of a Human being – Jesus Christ – took the punishment FOR YOU so you never have to. We just have to entrust our lives to Him... to let Him be our Saviour.

Yes, He does love you even if you don't know it... and even if you don't want to know it. He died for you while you were STILL a sinner.

Think about that for a minute... would you give up something so precious to you – such as your life – for someone who constantly tells you they don't love you and constantly rejects you?

Jesus did.

Bry... @ The Vine