God made us in His image and loved us so much he wanted us to have a free will, freedom to make decisions and be who we want to be. Yet, with that freedom came the ability to choose to wrong things (sin). There are consequences for sin, and that is death.
Despite our affinity to make poor choices and to sin, God loved us so much He made a way of escape from this consequence...He paid our consequence. He loved us so much that He stretched out His arms and died For Us! Wow! Our Creator saw that by allowing us freedom to make choices That we would also need a Saviour.
Therefore, He gave His life so that we, as sinners, could have a way to have our wrong choices forgiven! He died, He, who never sinned, lovingly took on ability to pay for our sins.
Now the choice is up to us. Choose God or choose Death.
But everyone dies!?! Yes, our earthly bodies die, they rot and decay...but our souls live forever! That is the beauty in how we were created!
The choice therefore is to follow the Creator and Saviour and choose life or turn our backs on Him and choose the path of death.
When we choose life through Christ Jesus, it doesn't mean our lives will be perfect. He doesn't promise an easy road. We will still make poor choices and others will make poor choices that affect us too. However, He is there through it all, He promises to strengthen us, and give is peace and refuge.
The verse alone shows that we will need strength in life's challenging moments and we will need a place of refuge from the storms that come into our lives. Life is not always easy, but God is ALWAYS there, He will cover you with His feathers and you can find shelter in Him! (Psalm 91:4)
He is:
There need be no fear because we know that God is on our side! No one can truly harm us.
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