Road Trip - Part 3

"But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 6:23

Last time we got off "the road" and took a look at just how much God loves us. Maybe just one more reminder....

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall have eternal life." - John 3:16

The first few verses of our Romans Road road trip have been a pretty dismal. Basically, no one is good, and we're all going to hell. But today that changes. We finally receive some GOOD news!

First of all Romans 6:23 says that we get a gift! A FREE gift!! And what a gift it is - eternal life! To be honest, we ALL will live forever, it's just a matter of location, right? Heaven or hell.

For those of us who have chosen Jesus, heaven will be our destination. For those who don't believe in God or don't want to partake of God's free gift, well, those people will get to live forever too - in a lake of fire.

As believers, God's gift of eternal life sounds good until we remember that we have family members and friends who will basically choose to go to hell because of their refusal to believe in Jesus. That hurts us deeply. Why? Because we love them.

There's that word again. Love.

Jesus died so that ALL might live. "The WHOLE world" John 3:16 says. He died for all of us! In our place. How incredibly humbling for us, that God Himself would die for us. We are not worthy. Yet God, in His divine grace, sacrificed His own life so that we could be with Him forever.

But not all of us choose to believe that. And that makes us sad. Why? Again, it's because we love them.

Next time we will learn just what is meant by 'believing' in Jesus. As James says? "Even the demons believe."

[Come back on Wednesday for the final leg of our journey along the Romans Road to Salvation.]