INCONCEIVABLE BUT TRUE

It is scarcely conceivable that Jesus Christ – God – would come down from heaven, spend time with us, and then let himself be crucified, suffering horribly, at the hands of beings he created.  Maybe it’s not conceivable at all - just something to accept.  Because it is true.  It did happen.

God.  There is such a gap between God and people.  Yes, I know.  A person who has been born again and filled and baptized with the Holy Spirit has God with him always.  Not only is the Holy Spirit there, but Jesus and the Father live in him and he lives in them. 

Still, what a gap.  God – the creator of everything.  All powerful.  And then people.  Human beings.  Flesh with a spirit.  On Earth.

How and why do you love us so, do you care so?

What is a man, that you are mindful of him?

The son of man, that you care about him?

Yet you made him a little less than God.

You have given him dominion over the work of your hands

You have placed all things under his feet –

All sheep and oxen

And beasts of the field,

The birds of the air and fishes of the sea

And all that passes along the paths of the sea.

                                                                                (a paraphrase of part of Psalm 8)

What is a man, Lord.  What is a man?  And why do you care so much?  Oh, there are limits.  We found that out in Noah’s day when you eliminated everyone on earth except righteous Noah and his family.  But you still kept the design, the thread alive.  Eight people survived. 

There is something about this current human design, isn’t there.  Something that has your heart.

Something angels keep trying to look into, to understand.

Help us, Lord.  Help us to be who you envisioned us to be.  Help us not to fail.

You alone can do it.  Without you we are sunk.  We’ve proved that over and over, individually and collectively.  Humanity proves that countless times every day.

Thank you for your love and your care.  And for the opportunity to be with you and the Father.

 

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                                                               (September 2013)

                                                                                                              Copyright © 2013 by John Newlin.

 

 

 

 

 

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