Amazing Love

How amazing is it that the living Creator would not just recognize the need for pardon and instead of sit back in judgement, come down to Earth in love.  It is easy because of the immensity of the act of the Creator to think that salvation is soley an act commited on our behalf.  It was not.  It ws inevitable because of the choice if the Creator.  He is a Godof love, yes.  But His love is not based on us; it is not affected by us.  We are the ones affected by it.  His love is not based on an emotion.  It is based on a decision the three of God made before creation.  Before the foundations of the world were laid, the need for intervention was evident.  Don’t be deceived into thinking that God is some automaton feeling nothing.  It is just that He being not a man, is not controlled by emotion.  He saves not because any of us deserve it, none of us do.  Once we cross the line into sin it does not matter how far we go.  Once someone breaks the barrier of water, they are wet.  The deeper you go does not make you wetter, only farther from getting dry. He looks at us as either wet with sin or dry with His righteousness.  He wants us dry.  He saves us to return us back to the plan when life and the universe began.  None of this is a mistake.  He knew where man would head when He created us.  To us it seems to be this huge mess.  A grand splatter accross the great expanse of time.  If we look at it from the perspective of eternity, it and all of time are miniscule.  To us who live in it, and walk in it still, just our time or at most the time of history is so vast.  Some people have committed themselves to the study of one era and study it their whole life leaving their meager legacy of knowledge for another to come after them to make more of a dent on the subject.  This life is ponderous.  How much more the eternity after it?  In the great expanse of eternity, how important will the next few thousand years be?  What about the next ten minutes?  The God who lives in this kind of reality, this kind of timelessness, the opportunity to spend it with Him.  he has seen it right to offer it to us as well, if we would jus fall back in line with the plan to get us there.  This is not a new plan.  We are not on plan B.  We are kust returning to the course that was started so mnay years ago.  As with God, everything us a process, so has man’s time on the earth.  It has taken us this long to progress to get closer ti getting back to the plan.  If we hold onto the things that are not eternal, we choose against His will and plan.  And therefore, we choose to be seperated from that plan and from Him.  Our choice got us into this mess and God has allowed that our choice for Him will get us out.  We must trust the process He has laid out before us.  He us the way, the truth and the lufe.  No man comes to the Father except through Him.  We must run the race, finish the course, and keep our eyes on Him the Author and Finisher of our faith.  He is the one we should consider that we not lose heart.