"Stop for a moment and reflect on the implications."

A thought by Charles R. Swindoll, from his book, Jesus: 09 (Great Lives Series) (p. 28). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.)

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Charles says, "Stretch your imagination and put yourself in His position. You are the supreme power over everything. You are beyond the need for food or safety, you do not feel pain, you cannot suffer death, you exist in a realm beyond the confines of time and three-dimensional space, and you are entirely content. As the almighty Creator of everything, you spoke the universe into existence, established a perfect habitat for living creatures, fashioned people to reflect your image, and then breathed life into them, only to have them rebel and make a mess of your world."

He goes on, "For reasons we may never completely understand, the almighty Creator loves the people He made so much that He devised a plan to save us from this mess. And that plan called for the Creator to become a human being. In the person of the Son, the timeless, all-powerful God voluntarily exited eternity and stepped into time to become a helpless human being; the Creator became as a creature to suffer the same pains we suffer, to endure the same heartaches and disappointments, struggles and temptations that afflict us, to bear the same injustices that plague human existence, and even to subject Himself to the awful consequences of sin."

He later says, "We justly and unjustly suffer the consequences of a world given over to wrongdoing. It treats us unfairly and we too often respond by committing our own unjust deeds, thus adding to the sin of the world. Then, collectively and individually, we all reap the terrible consequences of unwise and immoral choices. What a mess!"

He then says, "Fortunately, God didn’t leave us to suffer alone. In His grace, He voluntarily became one of us in the person of Jesus. And He did this in order to share our burden and, ultimately, provide a permanent solution for the mess we’ve made—the problem of evil."

God through Christ loved us so much. Now that is real love, isn't it? Yes, yes! #continuethought

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