How much does God love you and me?

Romans 5:6-11 really made me stop and think about how much God loves us.  I do not think we can even comprehend the answer to that question.  He loves us even though we are sinners, rebellious and disobedient to him.  He loves us even when we are still His enemies.  Jesus the Son of God's life was more valuable than the accumulative value of all the people in all of the history of mankind. In other words His life was more valuable than all the lives of all human beings that lived in the past, are living at present and will still live in the future added all together.  He could pay the price for all of human kind, trading places with us when He took our sin upon Him and gave us His righteousness.  When He said 'It is finished' on the cross everything that needed to be done so that we could be reconciled with God was done.

Now there is only one thing left for us to do.  We need to respond to this love.  We need to accept the gift of reconciliation so that we can have a new life in and through Christ.  He is waiting for your and mine answer.  He waits with abated breath because more than what He already did for us He cannot do.  We have the choice to accept or reject.  What is your answer?   How do you respond to a love like this? 

  Romans 5:6-11 NKJ

⁶ For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. ¹⁰ For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. ¹¹ And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

 No one ever cared for me like Jesus - Stephany Gretzinger