Thoughts for another day

June 21, 2013.

Today's verse: Jn. 3:18. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Much before the world was formed, as the bible lays hint to, God knew His most beautiful creation, man, would sin and so God had a plan: His Only Son Jesus Christ was to go to earth as a Man and die to redeem him.  As time unfolded, Jesus came and lived among us; He knew our pain and suffering, our joys and comforts, and every aspect of human nature.  When it came for Him to go and die for us, He didn’t dither, but went willingly and gave up His life to fulfill His Father’s will.  Then the Father brought about the great event of Jesus’ resurrection, an event never paralleled before and never ever, again.

This meant the doors of heaven which were hitherto closed, opened up; the chasm between God and man was bridged by the Glorious Cross of Jesus.  The only condition was: man had to believe in This; particularly that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.  You see the Trinitarian nature of God was revealed at the time of Jesus, by which God gave us a rare insight into His being.   God opened up an inner stream of mercy which could be seen in Jesus by which, He, always had compassion and love for people, even at grave risk for His life; for were He to not work good on the Sabbath, He perhaps wouldn’t have antagonized the Pharisees and Scribes, who directed the path of religion for the Jews.

But because Jesus was God and He loved His people, He did what He did for them.  And so began the confrontation between Him and them.  They overlooked His work and mission, adamantly refusing to believe He was the Son of God, blinded by their own pride and reasoning.  Therefore, our Word today, tells us they’re already condemned.  But for those who believed in Him, they also were given the right to be called the children of God (Jn. 1:12).  It’s rather tragic that the people who should have recognized Jesus and spoken about Him to the people, because of obduracy, refused to give Him the title of the ‘Christ’ and perished; and the sad thing is, they took many others with them.  But we’re not to follow them and hold fast to our faith in Christ as the Son of God, renouncing every other teaching to the contrary, so that in the world to come, by His Grace, mercy and love, we may stand before Him and live with Him.