Scripture

We are now in our second week of memorizing Romans. I should have 5:1-10 written on my heart by Thursday. I write to engrave the words on my brain and I thought, "What better place than on a weekly log?" So, unless you want to read my pitiful attempts of reciting, you can stop reading here for today.

Romans 5:1-as much as I can remember -- Therefore, since we are now justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. (v. 1-5, last week)

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man, some one might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his love in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Here is where a new paragraph begins but I have not entirely learned this portion. Soon, and very soon. (6-8ish, plus some additional text edited by Kyle J. Stallard)