Thursday, September 6, 2012

THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE LOVE OF GOD

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                If you are a parent you know how hard it is to watch one of your children suffer. And even more so if one of them dies - we lost a grandchild 15 years ago.  Consider this as you think of God watching His son Jesus die and not an easy death.  All planned out and proclaimed as something that was going to happen.  Jesus and the Upper Room and His disciples listening but unwilling to believe.

       “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.”  That’s the way it reads.  That’s the way it is.  Our relationship with God is possible for only one reason, His love for us.  His love for us…ah yes, “…he takes the blame…he covers the shame…he removes the stain…he makes beauty where no beauty reigned.”  (Rewrite of writings by an anonymous writer)

       The young soldier was a deserter and Napoleon ordered that he be shot.  His mother continued to plea for the life of her son, “Please have mercy on him,” she cried.  “He doesn’t deserve mercy,” came back Napoleons reply.  There was a moment of silence and the woman grew strangely quiet.  Then in a voice that was hardly more than a whisper she looked into the eyes of the leader of her land and said, “If he deserved it, it would not be mercy.”

       What God gives is a gift of mercy because we do not deserve it but He gives it anyway.   How does the Psalmist put it, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.”  (Psalm 103:11)

       Have you ever collected and restored antiques?  We haven’t, but I admire people who do.  People who can take some old table, chair or bookcase, that looks beyond redemption, and make it a thing of beauty.  Scrape off old coats of paint or varnish.  Bring out all of the beauty that once was there.

 I think this is God and this is man.  We are all, on our first day of birth, wide-eyed and innocent, and then as we grow older temptation comes to call, and weakness answers the door.  We pile up our sins of omission and commission and daily acquire overlays of unworthiness, and what does God do?  He looks at us and accepts us as we are; dents, scratches and imperfections - one and all.  Restores us by His redeeming grace.  Brings us back to Him to be loved and fathered and forgiven. 

Am I saying that when we accept God’s love we become restored antiques?  Yes, in a way, I believe that is exactly what I am saying. 

The book of Ephesians describes this antique restoration so very well, “…once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.” (Ephesians 5:8)

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·         Here Comes Summer (July 2012)

·         Spring (May 2012)

·         Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)

·         Wayward and Windy (April 2012)

 

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