After rolling around in my head for sometime and coming out in prayers, it occurred to me that the thought of the only One True God, Creator of the Universe, humbling Himself before us, becoming one of us, is certainly one of the hardest points for anyone, esp. unbelievers, to accept. That He would, if He exists, concern Himself with us at all (and even David asked this) is almost beyond comprehension. The mere thought, much less proclamation, of God coming in flesh, dying horribly in our stead (or of dying at all), is preposterous!He is GOD! Why would He do this? Surely it is ridiculous to even suggest, and blasphemous to believe!
Think instead of how a parent must talk to their child. They must lower themselves in some capacity to the child's level. The child cannot raise themselves up to an adult, nor can one child, no matter how gifted teach another how it is done - neither are parent's. The parent's simply must humble themselves and serve the child, at least in as much as does not harm the child, in order to care and raise them. So, it is with God.
He is humble and loves even when we reject Him. "Yet while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Does the Father not, as Christ points out, let the rain fall on everyone, the sun rise for the good and the wicked? He will judge us, yes. But He will wait till the tally is in, till the accounts are full, until His time, not ours. And it is by His awesome and perfect humility and by His infinite and unfathomable grace that by bowing down for us, He brings us up to Him. We may only love because He loves, we may forgive because He forgives. We know mercy because He is merciful. How could anyone come up with "goodness" like this on their own, and why would we call it "goodness" unless there is an ultimate good?
How could anyone or anything on earth or in heaven get up to Him without it being by His unimaginable power? No man, woman or child, no angel, not even the greatest of angels, Satan could do it without His help (in fact, that is the very thing that caused Satan's fall, that He tried, no?) For this reason, no one else could do it but God Himself. That is why the atheist, agnostic, Jehovah's Witness, and Mormon approach cannot touch the Light. That is why we declare Emmanuel, God with us, Christ the Lord, Y'eshua Netzarim (Jesus the Nazarene) is God in flesh. That is why He alone is worthy of our love. Because He came down to us, because He first loved us.
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Amen, brother! That's what Paul meant when he said in 1 Corinthians that Christ sounds like foolishness to the unsaved.
Oh yes indeedy. Only the Spirit of God can open one's heart to Him, but He is still kind. If we have so hardened our hearts and become so arrogant, belligerent, that we cannot hear His call, then we, as they say, have made our beds and must lie in it. Pray for the lost, pray for each other. Actively love each other. What a man or woman may call foolish in ideals is much harder for them to ignore in action. We must make our love active and let Him do the work for which He has chosen us.
I think it's a little funny that Satan tries to take God's throne. He isn't even as powerful as Michael, yet he thinks he can beat God.
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