If we realize life is short and our days are numbered, we might be open to receiving something valuable from God.

If we see evidence that God loves us, then we’ll probably have an easier time accepting that his rules are good.

Jesus himself used this incident to point to his own sacrificial death on the cross, and the apostle Paul urged Christians to learn from it.

Unfortunately, we will fail many of the defining moments in our life. But with Jesus we can have a defining moment of faith in God that supersedes all others.

God feels strong emotions about all the wrongs that we do. His justice is stirred and he feels outrage in a totally righteous way. And even though God will gladly take steps to delay demonstrating his outrage, he cannot simply make his wrath disappear.