How Marvelous! How Wonderful

Worship Wednesday with Pastor Edith
April 2, 2025
Romans 5:8

Happy April! Spring is springing (in some ways very stormy), birds are singing and Easter is on its way. Let’s not run too fast to the resurrection, that we might miss the raw amazement of Christ’s sacrifice.

Our text from Romans 5:8 may very well be very familiar to many of you, still, I love to tell it over and over again in case someone may have missed it; “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. We share this often during our Holy Communion service at church and we remember how this proves God’s love for us. Think about it, God doesn’t wait until we get our act together, he simply waits for us to realize our desperate need of Him and welcomes us to know Him more.

I have a dear departed pastor friend who loved a hymn inspired by this verse. The hymn is entitled “I Stand Amazed in the Presence”; “I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how He could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. How marvelous! How wonderful! And my song shall ever be: How marvelous! How wonderful is my Savior’s love for me”!

AMEN and PRAY ON!