Summary: I read a story about a girl who had a rare kidney disease. The doctors said that she needed a kidney transplant, so a family member gave one of their kidneys to the girl. Several years later, the girl needed another transplant. This time another relative gave a kidney to save the girls life. Without these transplants, the girl would have died.<br> That story made me think about our Bible Reading for today. Verse 5 tells us that we <em>were spiritually dead because of all we had done against him. </em>But through Gods mercy and grace, He sent Jesus to die for us. And God gives us a new life and the promise of eternal life with Him. <em>In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do</em> (verse 10).<br> Every day we need to thank God for what He has done for us. Without His mercy and grace, we would be lost and separated forever from Him.
