Scripture Reference: Romans 5:1-11
The love of God is completely supernatural and otherworldly. He demonstrated or shows His marvelous love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. If we ask why He did it, we must look for the answer in the sovereign will of God Himself. There was no good in us to call forth such love.
Now a new set of conditions exists. We are no longer reckoned as guilty sinners. At the enormous cost of the Savior’s blood, shed for us a Calvary, we have been counted righteous by God. Since He went to such tremendous cost to justify us when we were sinners, won’t He much more save us from the wrath of God through Christ? If He has already paid the greatest price to bring us into His favor, is it likely that He would allow us to perish in the end?
Saved from the wrath of God means “to be delivered from any contact with wrath.” We are saved away, apart from any contact with the wrath of God, either in time or in eternity.
Going back to what we were and what we now are, think of it this way. It was while we were enemies that we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. We were hostile toward the Lord and quite content to have it so. Left to ourselves, we felt no need of being reconciled to Him. Think of it, enemies of God Almighty, the Creator of all that ever was, is or will be!
God did not share our attitude in the matter. He intervened in a display of pure grace. The substitutionary death of Christ removed the cause of our hostility toward God, namely, our sins. By faith in Christ we have been reconciled to God.
If God purchased our reconciliation so dearly, will He ever let us go? If we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, which is a symbol of utter weakness, shall we not be preserved to the end by the present life of Christ at the right hand of God, a life of infinite power? If His death had such power to save us, how much more will His life have power to keep us!
6. Now we come to the sixth benefit of justification: we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We not only rejoice in His gifts but in the Giver Himself. Before we were saved we found our joys elsewhere. Now we exult whenever we remember Him, and we are sad only when we forget Him. What has produced this marvelous change, so that we can now be glad in God? It is the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Like all our other blessings, this joy comes to us through Him.
7. The seventh benefit enjoyed by the justified is found in the words we have now received reconciliation. Reconciliation refers to the establishment or in the case of humanity, the re-establishment of harmony between God and man through the sacrificial work of the Savior; once lost through the man Adam, now regained through the Man Christ Jesus. The entrance of sin had brought estrangement, alienation, and enmity between man and God. By putting away sin, which had caused the alienation, the Lord Jesus restored those who believe on Him to a state of harmony with God. We should note, in passing, that God did not need to be reconciled. It was man who needed it, because it was man who was the enemy, at odds with God.
Are you reconciled to God, the Father today? It’s as easy as accepting the gift of Christ Jesus’ death and resurrection that is offered to you. Today He is knocking on the door of your heart. Will you answer?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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