In Nigeria's Middle bank the Christian communities have suffered greatly from attacks by Fulani Islamist militias, a Christian Pastor said,''It is as if the lives of Christians no longer matters''.It is very sad to read that,their lives may not matter to those who are attacking them ,but their lives do matter to God and the Christian family. We read in Psalm 116 v 15,'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints'. What makes them precious?,they are His children, I have known parents who have lost children ,it is heartbreaking, for ones children are precious to them. So it is with God's children, they are very precious to Him.They are precious to Him because they cost Him the death of His Son Jesus.Peter in his epistle writes these beautiful words, For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom He paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God'.(1 Pet 1 v 18 -19 )They are precious to Him, because He loves them,( Romans 5 v 5),and in Romans 8 v 37- 39, we are told that nothing can separate them from that love ,not even death.
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