Understanding what we deserve before God, helps us be so grateful for what he didn’t give us, his wrath. Jesus took the penalty for what we should have gotten, eternal separation from God. Instead, we receive the blessing of what we could never do on our own, through Jesus perfect life. As God says, it is only the beginning of what we have to look forward to, both now, and for all of eternity.

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