#336.4 – “The Lunch-maker and the Way-maker”

“For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.” - Romans 5:6
It is customary in our home for me to pack the kids’ lunches for school. There are a few times, however, when I am doing all I can just to get me ready in the mornings! On those days, lunches get purchased instead of being made. But recently, I have had an eager beaver who has gotten herself ready early enough to come in the kitchen and help me pack lunches. Ruthie was consistently one of the first kids ready to go to school last week… and she was right there beside me, helping me bag up chips and sandwiches and whatever else needed doing. This unexpected help often came at just the right time… because I would be running around wondering what I was going to do to get us all out the door on time.
I needed help right at the moment it was given… and that made that help especially precious to me. In the same way, we as sinners before a holy God needed help in order to be forgiven of our sins and brought into the Presence of God clean and right… and Jesus provided that help (in fact, it is more accurate to say that He Himself IS that help… that Way to God. Without His dying for our sins, we would have no way to have a relationship with God. But because He did, we can! And that sacrifice should be to us a most precious gift – more precious than anything.
Lord, help me to be reminded of how thankful I should be in light of what You did on my behalf.

Daniel