“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly…But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6 & 8)

This verse came from www.biblegateway.com. Now yesterday was one of those days where everyone around me seemed to forget how to be basic kind humans. How is it that we in America can have so much, yet show so little mercy and kindness for others? Quite honestly, this lack of kindness in people starts to build up a bit of animosity. These were the ideas going through my head as I sat down to write this nugget. And God, through the not so random verse-of-the-day, spoke to me. Specifically pointing out the words “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” So as I was reading this verse it made me realize that I too was being one of these humans that forgot something. But it wasn’t how to be kind, it was that the Lord and creator of everything humbled Himself on the cross for the very sinners who put Him there. God didn’t conditionally wait for His people to be free of sin and ready to be saved. God sent His Son fully knowing that Jesus was going to be “the stone you builders rejected.” And of course all this is leading to the realization that if God, that is Christ Jesus, could leave heaven; become subject to flesh; beaten and abused; left alone and isolated to die on the cross. If God can do that for all mankind while sin still ravished our hearts. Then I too should be able to take the difficult situations and conversations; the much grace needed people in my life and share the same grace God has given me with them. The perfect God sent His Son to die for sinners, seems like the least we can do is offer an olive branch to the difficult people in our lives.