Thoughts for another day


December 15, 2010

Today's verse: 1 Pet. 1:20. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Even before the foundation of the world, God knew about the fall of man… the collapse of the most magnificent creature He would create on the earth (which of course He would create to be fit for him to occupy and live in). Although God knew about man's desire to be like Him, fully abetted by the devil, God yet had much love in Himself for man to create him despite knowledge that man would treat Him with contempt and lack of desire, leave alone have gratitude.

At the beginning itself, God knew that though man would sin, He would yet love him and that love would also lead His Son to come on earth as man; then die for him and rise from the dead to provide him eternal life. Such was the plan of God before even the world started to be formed. And, God never hesitated in creating man upon earth even though He knew much about man's ambition to subtract Him from his life and try to be independent. God even knew that in the year 2010, He would have forsaken Him more or less completely and have his dependence on his own knowledge and on machines. Yet, God went ahead and created Him.

God knew He Himself would have to provide a solution for man's fall and so He ordained the birth of Christ. And on a cold wintry night long ago, Jesus came to the earth born of a woman, born into the crucible of suffering and penury so as to enkindle the hope of billions on the earth – a hope they would place in Him as they suffered remembering always that they worshipped a God who knew suffering and penury. A hope that would raise their spirits and make them await their salvation in time to come. Today, the world is in a terrible quandary. Man has diminished as it were, the control of God in his life and given it to the devil rather unwittingly and the mirth of satan can be seen in that he is causing grave worries for man. Yet as we celebrate this Christmas, we put our hope in the little child of Bethlehem and raise our pitch to be the children of the kingdom through Him.