Verses from Mark and Romans

十二门徒中的一个，就是加略人犹大，去见祭司长，要把耶稣交给他们。(马可福音 14:10)

唯有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死，神对我们的爱就在此显明了。(罗马书 5:8)

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. (Mark 14:10)

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

British pastor Joseph Parker was asked, “Why did Jesus choose Judas to be one of His disciples?” He thought deeply about the question for a while but could not come up with an answer. He said that he kept running into an even more baffling question: “Why did He choose me?”

That’s a question that has been asked throughout the centuries. When people become painfully aware of their sin and are overcome with guilt, they cry out to Jesus for mercy. In joyous wonder they experience the truth that God loves them, that Jesus died for them, and that they are forgiven of all their sins. It’s incomprehensible!

Have u too asked, “Why me?” God knows that the dark and sinful deeds of our lives are motivated by a heart even darker, and yet God loves us! (Rom. 5:8). We are undeserving, wretched, and helpless, yet He opens His arms and His heart to us. 

We cherish our sin. We protect it. We deny its wrongdoing. Yet God loves us enough to forgive us and set us free.

“Why me?” It’s beyond my understanding. Yet I know He loves me—and He loves you too!

God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.