Romans 5:10 takes us to the stunning turning point of the gospel: we didn’t climb our way toward God—He came toward us while we were still opposed to Him. The verse holds two wonders together: reconciliation through Christ’s death, and a living Savior who keeps saving, keeping, and carrying us forward.

Reconciled at the Costliest Moment

There’s no softening what Scripture says about our starting place: “enemies.” Not merely confused or morally neutral, but resistant to God’s rule. And yet God moved first. “But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Reconciliation isn’t God pretending sin doesn’t matter—it’s God dealing with sin fully, personally, and lovingly at the cross.

That means your peace with God is not built on today’s spiritual performance. It’s built on Christ’s finished work. “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). When your conscience accuses and your past feels loud, you can answer with Calvary: the Judge has become your Savior, and the sentence has been paid.

Saved by His Life Right Now

Romans 5:10 doesn’t stop at the cross; it moves to the present: Christ lives, and His living matters for your Monday. The risen Jesus is not a historical hero you admire; He is an active Savior who intercedes, strengthens, and shepherds. “Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25).

So when you feel like you’re running on empty—tempted, tired, or discouraged—don’t assume God has stepped back. The living Christ is your ongoing help. “Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19). His resurrection isn’t just a doctrine to affirm; it’s a life to depend on. Ask Him for what you actually need today: purity, courage, patience, truthfulness—real grace for real life.

Living Like the Reconciled

Reconciliation changes identity: you’re not simply “forgiven,” you’re welcomed. “For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit” (Ephesians 2:18). Access means you don’t have to knock timidly; you come as a child who belongs. And if God has brought you near, He intends your life to reflect that nearness in worship, obedience, and love.

It also reshapes how you view others. If God pursued you when you were an enemy, you can pursue peace when relationships are strained. “Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32). Reconciliation with God becomes a pattern for reconciliation with people—not cheap peace, but courageous truth, humble repentance, and persistent forgiveness.

Lord Jesus, thank You for reconciling me to God by Your death and for saving me by Your living power; help me draw near today and live like I belong to You—make me quick to obey, quick to forgive, and bold to love. Amen.

God being who and what He is must love Himself with pure and perfect love. The Persons of the Godhead love each other with a love so fiery, so tender, that it is all a burning flame of intense desire ineffable. God is Himself the only being whom He can love directly; all else that He loves is for His own sake and because He finds some reflection of Himself there . God loves His mute creation because He sees in it an imperfect representation of His own wisdom and power. He loves the angels and seraphim because He sees in them some likeness of His holiness. He loves men because He beholds in them a fallen relic of His own image. Potentially God loves all men alike, but His active love lights upon some men more than upon others, the degree depending upon how much of Himself He is able to impart to them. The truly Christlike soul enjoys more of God's love because God sees in it a truer image of Himself than in a soul less purified. God loves His Son with infinite perfection because He is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. - Psalm 23:2

It is the hot noontide, and the desert lies baking in the awful glare, and every stone on the hills of Judea burns the foot that touches it. But in that panting, breathless hour, here is a little green glen, with a quiet brooklet, and a moist lush herbage all along its course, and great stones that fling a black shadow over the dewy grass at their base; and there would the shepherd lead his flock, while the "sunbeams, like swords," are piercing everything beyond that hidden covert. Sweet silence broods there. The sheep feed and drink, and couch in cool lairs till he calls them forth again. So God leads His children. Rest and refreshment are put first, as being the most marked characteristic of God’s dealings. After all, it is so. The years are years of unbroken continuity of outward blessings. The reign of afflictions is ordinarily measured by days. Weeping endures for a night. It is a rainy climate where half the days have rain in them; and that is an unusually troubled life of which it can with any truth be affirmed that there has been as much darkness as sunshine in it.

But it is not mainly of outward blessings that the Psalmist is thinking; they are precious chiefly as emblems of the better spiritual gifts. And it is not an accommodation of his words, but is the appreciation of their truest spirit, when we look upon them, as the instinct of devout hearts has ever done, as expressing both God’s gift of temporal mercies and His gift of spiritual good, of which higher gift all the lower are meant to be significant and symbolic. Thus regarded, the image describes the sweet rest of the soul in communion with God, in whom alone the hungry heart finds food that satisfies, and from whom alone the thirsty soul drinks draughts deep and limpid enough. This rest and refreshment has for its consequence the restoration of the soul, which includes in it both the invigoration of the natural life by the outward sort of these blessings, and the quickening and restoration of the spiritual life by the inward feeding upon God and repose in Him.

The Divine rest is not only a pattern of what our earthly life may become, but is a prophecy of what our heavenly life shall surely be. There is a basis of likeness between the Christian life on earth and the Christian life in heaven, so great as that the blessings that are predicted of the one belong to the other. Only here they are in blossom, sickly often, putting out very feeble shoots and tendrils; and yonder, transplanted into their right soil, and in their native air, with heaven’s sun upon them, they burst into richer beauty, and bring forth fruits of immortal life. Heaven is the earthly life of a believer glorified and perfected. If here by faith we enter into the beginning of rest, yonder, through death with faith, we shall enter into the perfection of it. Heaven will be for us rest in work, and work that is full of rest. Our Lord’s heaven is not an idle heaven, and the heaven of all spiritual natures is not idleness. Man’s delight is activity. The loving heart’s delight is obedience. The saved heart’s delight is grateful service. The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: "They rest not day nor night." " His servants serve Him and see His face." Heaven is perfect " rest."