CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY

 EVENING DEVOTION

NOVEMBER 24

 

Romans 5:6

…in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

 
Not for the weak merely, but for the wicked.
 
For those who were totally depraved, and entirely unworthy of his notice.
 
Who had lost the image of God, were alienated from the life of God, and were enemies to God.
 
What wondrous grace is this!
 
He died only for the moral, or the amiable, or those who had something to recommend them to his notice, we might have given way to despair, and have concluded that he could not have died for us: but it was for the ungodly.
 
Just such as we are.
 
Actually for us if we believe him. In our stead. As our Substitute. That we might never die.
 
He was made sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
 
Let us then draw comfort from this fact, that Jesus died, in order that ungodly sinners might live for ever.
 
He bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins might live unto righteousness.
 
We therefore, as believers in Jesus, shall never die.
 
Our sins are atoned for.
 
For us expiation is made.
 
We are entitled to life.
 
We have it.
 
For Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
 

Was it for crimes that I had done

He groaned upon the tree?

Amazing pity! grace unknown!

And love beyond degree!

 
James Smith