Thoughts for another day

Sept. 18, 2009

Today's verse: Rom. 5:19. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Adam was created: Fresh and pure, completely rooted in God. His every DNA molecule reflected God and accorded complete glory to the Maker. Soon Adam sinned and sullied the gloriousness of God in Him. His DNA was stained. Because of Adam, whose DNA came to the entire human race, everyone was stained with the stain of sin.

Men carried that stain for centuries and centuries and the devil had a gala time in winning souls to himself, all the time mocking and scorning our beautiful God. But God wasn’t amused. In the fullness of time, the mystery held deep in God, was revealed when the Son of God came on earth as just one of us. He was sinless and unstained because He wasn’t contaminated by the DNA of Adam, since He was birthed by the Holy Spirit.

Now the second Adam came and lived with us. Yet in every walk of life, He didn’t sin in fact, He was so sinless that He could ask them, ‘Which of you convinceth me of sin?’ Jn. 8:46. No one could find any error in Him because He housed no error. His was ultra submission to the will of God and when they could find no excuses by which they could kill Him, out of jealousy they used the excuse, ‘The King of the Jews’. And what an irony, what they all along did not accept, Pilate reinforced (as His guilt on the Cross) for all mankind to see: The King of the Jews.

But importantly our reflection teaches us that in Jesus Christ the sinless Lamb of God, was washed the sins of mankind and Paul tells us that what was caused by one man’s disobedience, was undone by one Man’s obedience. The legal debt owed to satan by man was fully repaid by Man Himself. So what do we need to worry for or why should we be downcast in our souls for life has come to what was dead by the graciousness of our God and the sacrifice of our precious Savior Jesus Christ.