Good Morning!! the Bible starts out pretty darn sweet. In a flash, God creates
everything from nothing. It's so good that He calls it, well, "good."
After He creates a man and a woman to live in it, He actually calls it "very good."
In short, there was God, His perfect world, and a man and
woman walking together with Him in perfect unity. This was Eden. It
lasted for a good three pages. When the man and woman chose to doubt
what God said and chose instead
to believe the deception of the serpent, this perfect world was thrown
into complete crisis. Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden. One of
their sons murdered their other son. Insurance rates went way up. The
stock market crashed. The consequences were all over the place,...and
all
of these consequences emerged from one central, fundamental problem:
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things.—Isaiah 59:1-3 (NIV)
A perfect and holy Creator is separated from the creatures He loves, because of their choice to live independently of Him,...because of the barrier of sin between them. Yes, we built the wall, but Jesus tore it down.
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things.—Isaiah 59:1-3 (NIV)
A perfect and holy Creator is separated from the creatures He loves, because of their choice to live independently of Him,...because of the barrier of sin between them. Yes, we built the wall, but Jesus tore it down.
No one sinning ever really considered the full consequences of their sins,...or how they separate us from our Holy God.
Father God, by the power of Your Spirit and the description of Your Holy
Word, allow us to imagine the great gulf that existed between You and Your children,
before our redemption. Give us a glimpse of Your staggering holiness.
Give us this bigger picture so that we can more fully celebrate the
incredible things that Your Son accomplished on the cross. Amen!
" The Lord loves a cheerful giver,...until he brags about it."
" The Lord loves a cheerful giver,...until he brags about it."
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