Do you ever wonder what it would be like if God never chose
to be incarnated in the person of Jesus?
What if He came with power and glory and made Himself
visible to every human being on the planet?
Would He be more accepted as the Savior of the world? Would
each one of us get down on our knees and worship Him? Would our worship be
genuine and out of love or out of fear and compulsion?
Many have had similar thoughts and many have wondered why
out of all peoples God chose the Jews to be the physical progenitors of His Son
and not some other well known race. After all, the Israelites were known as a
stubborn or stiff-necked people and not as “cultured” as some of the Gentile
nations.
Why would God choose to enter our dimension in a low key,
humble fashion? The answer is hidden in the story of man’s creation and the
subsequent fall.
When God created us and placed us in the Garden of Eden, He
created mankind in His own image and likeness and with a free will. We were the
pinnacle of His creation, beings capable of living in a loving relationship
with their Creator. Even though we were made a little lower than the angels, we
were also made to have a relationship with God and to love and respect Him with
no compulsion and out of choice.
Our disobedience and lack of trust in our Creator led to the
Fall of Man and our expulsion from the Garden. Also, we lost our immortality
and were thrown into a rough environment and had to work in harsh conditions
living as enemies and not as friends of God.
Thankfully, God had a plan. As sin entered our plane of
existence through the disobedience of Adam, restoration of our broken
relationship with our Creator was to be accomplished through a more perfect
Adam through a none other than Jesus Christ the Man.
God’s Son became a man and lived among us as one of us. He felt our pain and our happiness, our fatigue
and our energy, our struggles and our victories but with one exception that he
did not break any of God’s laws, he remained sinless.
As a result of this, when Jesus voluntarily sacrificed
himself on the cross, he became the new Adam who would settle the score by satisfying
God’s Justice through his death thereby
providing the whole Adamic race the opportunity to live life abundantly and
eternally.
The wages of sin are death and Jesus as the Perfect and
Spotless Lamb of God through His own death restored our broken relationship
with God. He paid the price so that we can live again; He became our Lord and Savior.
Therefore, God who created us to be loving beings in a
relationship with Him, reached out to us to mend our state of brokenness due to
our disobedience and in His Son He became the Perfect Sacrificial Lamb and took
away the sins of the world.
God had to make a choice regarding the incarnation of His
Son and the Jews were the “lucky ones”. However, Jesus showed us how to live in
communication with God through the Holy Spirit and died for humanity as a whole
and not for any particular race.
Today, if you are thirsty and heavy laden, Jesus is offering
His living water so that you may never thirst again and His love and peace
which surpass all understanding. Please,
make the decision to invite Him into your world as your Lord and Savior and you
will not regret it!
John Costouros
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