Bible Reading: Romans 4:25
One day, while I was teaching Junior Church, a boy asked why Jesus didn’t just use His powers to stop His arrest, torture, and crucifixion. After all, Jesus could heal crippled
hands and make blind people see!
I explained that Jesus could have done that. He certainly had the ability to keep all of those awful things from happening to Him, but that Jesus never used His “God-powers” for His own benefit. He only used them to help us. I told my students that Jesus chose to use self-control and not do what would have made Himself safe and comfortable choosing to suffer pain and death for us.
I went on to tell them that the good news is that Jesus not only died for us, He came back to life for us. If Jesus had died and stayed dead, then we would have no hope for eternal life in heaven. Jesus’ death would have been the end of all hope. Thankfully, Jesus didn’t stay dead. Romans 4:25 says, “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.” Even more important that Jesus’ death is Jesus’ resurrection. It is the fact that Jesus came back to life, that He didn’t stay dead, that allows us to be forgiven of our sins, to be put back into a right relationship with God, and to know that we will live forever in heaven one day. That’s what justification is – our wrong relationship with God being made right. Jesus Christ was resurrected so we could be justified or made right with God. Without His resurrection our faith is pointless.
If you haven’t already accepted Jesus into your life and allowed Him to make right your relationship with God, please do so right now! Don’t wait!
Then, let’s all talk to God and thank Him for His precious gift of Jesus’ death and resurrection the only way our sins can be forgiven and our relationship with God made right.
“And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” 1 Corinthians 15:14
Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for Jesus’ resurrection, which allowed me to have a right relationship with You. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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