Explore God's Love With Your Family

My strong sense of what’s fair and not fair makes me wonder what it is like for God who is without sin and perfectly just. What he did to save us was the most unfair act in so many ways:

He sent his Son to be born into a world that hates him—to be fully man while fully God for the intent purpose of BECOMING our sin so that we might become his righteousness.

God made him who had no sin

to be sin for us,

so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

The reality that I deserve hell but Jesus suffered it for me is unfair. I deserve punishment for all the hurtful things I’ve done and the good I have not done—all the times I was more fixated on myself than on God and those in my life.

Jesus gave us his righteousness. We are holy and blameless in his sight. That’s unfair.

Jesus died to make us family, and we are children of the King of kings! That’s unfair.

He died and rose from the dead to be with us now and forever so that we will not suffer hell. We have an eternity of life with God in unimaginable love, free of evil, death, pain and sorrow. That’s unfair.

And God gives us faith in him while we are spiritually dead—born enemies of him. 

When his Spirit brings me to see the magnitude of our Savior’s unconditional love for every one of us, it causes me to repent for all the times I put myself in God’s place.

Lent is a time of year when we deliberately meditate on the love of Jesus for us. It is powerful for families to talk about their problems and their hopes in the reality of the truth that we are safely loved by Jesus. 

Use this verse from Corinthians as a conversation-starter for your family. Talk about what unfair really is. Talk to God together and tell him what it means to you that he did the most unfair thing to save you.