As I was talking to my Father God this morning, I was thinking about how great His love is for man, and for me personally as I’ve experienced all the years that I have been with the Lord my Savior. He planned for me to live on this earth and to live eternally in Heaven with Him. He planned for it, but for His good plan to be carried out for me I had to respond agreeably and faithfully to His wonderful will for me. How did I come to know His will? His Holy Bible!
God’s love is so GREAT for us that He allowed His one and only Son to come into this world as we all do by conception and nine months (give or take) growing in our mother’s womb. I love that my Father God planned for His Son to come that way because He could’ve come as an adult man, as God did Adam and Eve. I love that our Father God knew the importance for us to bring His Son to us - for ‘relation.’ Jesus did not come to bring us a religion of any kind, but rather to give us a personal relationship with Himself.
Jesus lived with all the things in life we all face, but unlike us, He remained a perfect man as God’s own Son. Jesus died a unique physical death, unlike we do, because His death was for our salvation from God’s wrath and eternal doom. Jesus is the way to the Father.
Jesus ‘visited’ the depths of death also. Most people will go there but not to visit when they die, while others won’t ever experience what Hell is being “in Christ Jesus.”
By Jesus entering our world as He did (by the seed of Holy Spirit), we were to know just how much God loves us by how Jesus showed God’s love in the life He lived on earth. We are to know that God has purposed a perfect plan of redemption through His Son. By the way the Father raised Jesus from the tomb and then how Jesus revisited His living disciples in His new body, we know what to expect with our physical death if we are “in Christ Jesus.”
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.”
God has given us His Word, which is impossible to destroy because it’s God, not man’s. God gave it to keep reminding people of who HE IS, and of what to expect as time goes on. The Bible is not a book to be feared, as most see it. God gave us His Word to keep reminding mankind that HE IS FOR US!
We learn in the Bible all the different characteristics of Christ by how God chose men for a particular purpose, and what they went through, what God did for them so they remained faithful in that time. Each was a “type” of Christ in all our Lord will complete – for eternity to begin; the eternity God originally planned for His beloved family. Just think; what if man had not sinned and no one had to die. Would the earth have been big enough to hold all those people? We see man trying to go to other planets for people to eventually live on, but they are not considering or regarding what God says and has in store for the planets HE CREATED in an eternal universe. Their fear of over population on earth is futile. What they need to do is listen to their Creator and Savior and obey His Word.
The Bible is our manual for life that gives us what we are to put our faith to, our work to, our love to, and even our hate to. All people have a mustard seed of faith that God gifts us with for a life with Him. That’s why God says in His Word that we are “made in His image,” unlike any other part of creation. But most people use that gift of faith in disobedient ways, which lead them to their destruction, as the Lord puts it.
Another gift from God is His indwelling Holy Spirit, the gift of God’s amazing grace. This gift comes when we put our faith in His Son’s work on the cross, for His forgiveness of our sins and rebellion, and with our invitation to Jesus to live in us – to the glory of our Father God.
When God, His Word and His Son are rejected - God’s wrath is as equal in power as His love is.
Acts 17:24-28 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being….We are his offspring.’”
Hebrews 1:3 “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”
What a GREAT GOD! What a WONDERFUL SAVIOR! What a FUTURE there is in CHRIST JESUS!