the price of freedom
to be given love would be more than sufficient... but would it be? what is to be given love if it is without substance. love is only as profound as the means by which it is displayed.
now this is beautiful beyond imagination so the Good Lord painted us a picture in blood on a canvas of a cursed tree.
a perfect, holy, just, and glorious God came to make rebels His adopted children not through their penance (as if we could somehow undo our infinite treason against an infinitely holy Person)... no, not through penance have we been reconciled but by the very blood of His very only begotten Son Jesus Christ...
...now that is amazing grace.
you see i was not just broken. i was a part of a rebellion against Heaven itself. I was in the ranks with all o the powers of darkness and as if to mock evil while displaying endless grace and sovereignty the King of Heaven came down, stole me from this world, paid my debt to His very law with His own blood, and adopted me as if i was His very own spotless, sinless, son.
Romans 5:6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die- 8but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
you see, i don't love because i fear death or because i feel lonely or whatever. i don't need a buddy to make me feel better about myself, i do too much of that on my own. i love Christ because He first loved me.
i can dumptruck ten tons of evidence on every atheist's doorstep but at the end of the day i don't need what i cognitively know about my Creator to trust Him... cause i know HIM not just stuff ABOUT HIM.
trust in Christ while you have breath in your lungs and a beat in your heart.