It occurred to me that Jesus came into the world to fulfill two missions. He had a job to do for His Father and He came to prompt a response from us. Jesus was the solution for our sin problem...the solution that God, the Father, had planned all along. Many prophecies and references in the Old Testament foretold of His coming. He came into the world to live a perfect life, die an unjust death that we might be justified and to prove His conquest of death by rising again. He also showed the world what the Father was like by faithfully teaching as the Father directed and demonstrating God's character of grace, righteousness, love and forgiveness. But He also came, in flesh and blood, and intersected human history to bring the biggest question of all to each of us. That question is: What will you do with Jesus? How do you respond to His reality? By coming into the world, God brings the question of faith to us. While we still walk the earth how do we deal with the existence of God. He knows that we must not wait until we die to meet Him. At that point faith and choice and belief no longer are relevant. The reality of eternity...of Heaven and of Hell...will be obvious. So, while we move through our days on the planet we must choose how we will respond to Jesus. We can't get around His life and we can't explain His miracles and we can't put His experience on Calvary and Golgotha under some convenient label or within some familiar box. We really can't ignore Him and we are foolish to deny Him. He has come to look each of us right in the eye and we must choose our response. Will we avert our eyes...will we attempt to run from Him...will we try to fill our time with activities and pursuits that distract us from His gaze? Jesus has come and He will prompt a response from you and from me. He will not let us go quietly into an eternity apart from God....What is your response? What will you do with Jesus?
Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
blessings,
Rob Smith
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