Romans 5:8

Tell the story of a lifeguard who refused to save a person until they stopped drowning

God doesn’t wait for us to clean up our act before extending His grace to us

Even at our most hideously sinful, God loves us…

And wants to show kindness & mercy to us

God comes looking for us…

Before we ever start looking for Him

God doesn’t expect us to come up on His level to be saved

God came down to us to save us

Romans 5:6–11 NET

6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life? 11 Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

It’s hard to fathom dying for an enemy

But that’s exactly what God did for us

He loved us before we loved Him

He died for us before we lived for Him

He saved us while we were sinners

Now it is our duty but also our joy to rejoice/brag on Him

The life of a Christian is to boast about God…

And how wonderful & gracious He is