5.12- He was an accomplished Eagle Scout.

 5.12-

He was an accomplished Eagle Scout. He was an excellent athlete and after college joined the Navy and flew planes. He was an optimist and greeted everyone with a smile and could light up a room with his contagious personality.
On leave from the Navy he had a near fatal motorcycle accident that most thought he would not survive. He sustained partial paralysis and suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of 23.
When I met him it was hard for me to grasp that part of his life. He had the joyful optimism and big smile, but he walked with a cane and moved slowly but steadily and talked with a bit of difficulty.
As we were driving home from a church fellowship he told me that without this accident he wouldn’t be alive.
“Larry, I was so proud. I was my own god and had no room in my life for a relationship with the true God. I was arrogant and conceited and didn’t think I needed anything. When I crashed I realized how much I needed God as my healer and my Savior.”
Pride kills the abundant life. Grace, mercy and peace refuels the abundant life.

Romans 5.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

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