We see in PSA 85:10, "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other."

In the Lord Jesus Christ, mercy and truth met together. The justice of God met together with mercy, and they were brought together.

What is this righteousness? It is the just demands of His law. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Where? In the perfect sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God would rather give His own Son to suffer, bleed, and die than to let His righteousness and justice fall. If His righteousness and justice fell, He would no longer be God.

JOH 3:16 tells us, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This is how God the Father made a way.

We had sinned and turned our backs upon Him and would never have returned again, but the love of the Father was not altered. His love was drawn out to His elect people, whom He sent His only Son to redeem.

The way was made open whereby the chiefest of sinners could again be reconciled unto God.

2CO 5:19 says, "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."

God the Father was through Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. We did not reconcile ourselves unto God. Our trespasses and sins were imputed unto His only begotten Son. The Lord sent the apostles to bring forth the word of reconciliation.

In ROM 5:8-10, we read, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." There is the beautiful, priceless thing of salvation: "while we were yet sinners."