For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT).God knew from the beginning that his people were going to act stupid and fall away from him.
It just made sense, when you think about it. It was the Persian flaw in the whole thing.
If God made us free agents, people with the ability to think for ourselves and decide for ourselves, he ran the risk of our deciding wrong. He knew that from the beginning. Being God, he also knew that it would happen.
Yet he made us anyway and gave us the opportunity to decide.
That is the problem anytime you give kids or anyone else the chance to decide what they want. They may very well decide against you. And if they do, what do you do then.
God could have made us so that we never decided wrong. We would be perfect forever. And with that eternal perfection, we would never have to worry about making the wrong choice, doing the wrong thing. There would be no sickness or pain, now sorrow of any kind.
And there would be no death, because we would just hang around the tree of life forever.
Of course, if he made us like that, he would have to remove our ability to choose. If he did, true, there would be no sickness, no pain, no hatred, no sadness.
But there would also be no health, no pleasure, no love, no joy.
Those are just the opposites of the others. Without one, you don’t have the other. What you have are robots, androids, automatons. And no one wants to be a robot.
We want the choice, but we do not want the consequences. God knew that from the beginning. And he sent Jesus to take care of that.
Jesus was perfect, so he could come before God. Jesus was also human, so he could touch us. And through him, we could touch God.
You want something done, you go to the guy who can do it right. There is no point in messing around half-way. Jesus did it right and became the way to get it done right in our lives. Through him, we can live. Without him, we are dead.
And he gives us, the church, the body of Christ, to God.
As his church, we are those who have accepted his sacrifice, his love and have come to him. We have chosen him, and have accepted his grace, responded to his love.
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