Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won't be scolded - you will be embraced.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
Almost everybody embraces life.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
I embrace everything.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.