DAY FIVE: For God So Loved The World

March 26, 2025

Day 5 (Friday) – Romans 5:1-11

Today’s Passage

God’s love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. God goes as far as to love us even when we were living against Him.

How do we have peace with God?
Why is suffering not always bad?
What hope is there for people we know who have done the wrong thing?

Prayer

Renew my passion for sharing the hope and truth of the Gospel.
Ask God to show His love to those who are suffering in our community, including the sick, the abused, and the lonely.
Ask that God will help them turn to Him to find His love.
Pray for Christian organisations involved in helping these people, such as Baptist Care, Salvation Army, or others you might support.

Go Deeper

Kenneth Boa and William Kruidenier, Romans, vol. 6, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 152–153.

Peace with God is what the gospel of Jesus Christ produces in the lives of those who embrace that gospel. And peace with God, Paul wants his readers to know, is the most fundamental peace there is. All other peace in the world has its basis in peace with God—which is the fundamental reason why peace will never be permanent in the human realm until all human beings embrace the rule of God.

Romans 5 reveals that peace has blessings and a basis. Peace with God is possible because the wrath of God has been deflected. His justice has been demonstrated and satisfied in the atoning sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. Because of this, He is at peace.

The idea that sinful humankind would find some fault in sinless God upon which to base hostility toward Him is unthinkable. But the idea that sinless God has found fault in sinful humans, which has aroused His indignation, is thoroughly biblical. Therefore, it is God who needed to announce peace, which He has done.

To use the analogy from The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan, the lion-king, is no longer “on the move.” Tremors could be felt throughout Narnia when Aslan was afoot and seeking his enemies. Conversely, a palpable peace invaded his kingdom when he was at peace. Thus is the nature of the kingdom of God. Those who choose to accept the God-King’s announcement of peace, secured by Jesus the Lion of Judah, may enter into His peace—and enjoy the benefits thereof.