Tag: Son

Revolving Around the Son

    Human nature drives people to revolve around an ideal, a center. God’s desire is for His chosen to revolve around Him, His Word, filled with His Spirit. The biggest problem that has become prevalent recently is the fact that people revolve around an ideal of self-focus. We as fallen creatures are selfish by nature.  People that have a void left by the absence of Jesus replace the spot at the center of their revolution with what they deem worthy. Jesus is a plumb line, a guiding light. When followers choose Him as the center of their lives they find consistency, stability, and peace. When people who do not know Jesus as their center revolve around themselves. They find turmoil because they are fallible and find comfort in earthly principles tat rise and fall. The revolution around a plumb line is consistent and driven by the Word of God, which was with the Creature from the beginning. It does not change, just like God Himself. The peace found in consistency, Spirit ideals, and love lasts always. God’s ideal cannot be changed, denied, or argued. The frustration found in a society that rejects accountability, selflessness, and morality comes from a revolution around chaos. Rejection of God and His Son, the rejection of truth itself, stems from self-reliance. The revolution around a selfish, chaotic, and fallible center is broken and painful. The revolution around the Creator, His Love, and His Word is a discernible circle full of peace.

   What is at the center of your revolution? Do you find yourself searching for peace? Take a step back for an honest evaluation of what leads your journey. Seek truth, seek to be in step with the way you were fearfully and wonderfully made. Examine a world around you that is full of confused and lost souls, seeking a way to belong. Know you belonged with God before you were ever born. Before a star was in the sky your Father knew where you would be and how to love you best. Revolve around Jesus the way the Earth revolves around the sun. The Creator gives you the solar system as an example and a void that can only be filled by Him at your center. Seek Him and know what peace He designed for you as you revolve around The Son!

God’s Repeated Warnings

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Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright, and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them— let their flesh be renewed like a child’s; let them be restored as in the days of their youth’— then that person can pray to God and find favor with him, they will see God’s face and shout for joy; he will restore them to full well-being. (Job 33:23-26)

                Reading the passage above I am confronted with the extent of God’s mercy. This wonder scripture tells us about “one of a thousand” angels send to guide us in how to walk with God. That’s God’s one thousand plus attempts to guide us back to Him. Imagine the love involved in that kind of persistence. Would you have the love to try a thousand times to walk with someone who rejected every previous attempt? God allows people who turn from Him to walk into trouble repeatedly in the hope that the next angel sent to them will be the messenger of joy to Heaven.

                Then it’s revealed that the angel may find a ransom for that lost soul, that they might be renewed in the eyes of their Lord. All of Heaven knows that there is in fact a ransom which will reconcile us with God. He sent His Son so that He might be a ransom for all who believe in His name. the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28) For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:5-6a)

                Praise God for the mercy, grace and love that led Him to seek His children a thousand times. Praise God for the gift of Jesus and His rescue from a death we all deserve in our sinful turning away. Although the events of Job take place well before the laws given to Moses or the birth of Jesus, we see the heart of God for His people. We can fall in love with a God who seeks us in our rebellion with a tenacity that has no bounds. Let this love for God lead you to share it with the lost as He sends to share the Gospel. Know that you are one of God’s thousands of attempts to make His love known in all the earth.