Unimaginable
What God has done.
Sometimes, when I wake up early, in the peaceful moments before the day’s agenda takes over my mind, I have a clear sense God with us all through the earth, and I begin to think through it, the fact of Jesus coming straight from heaven to dwell with us as a human being. God, who created quarks and designed all of quantum mechanics, determined the speed of light and the force of gravity, and set our twenty-four hour day by the rotation of our planet, God came to be a man among us , very human, and the light of the world, with blood in his veins, a mind to think, a voice to speak, and a heart to feel both joy and pain.
He had a heart that He gave to break over our sad state; we had rejected God and gone, each of us, to our own way. He had a heart to die to atone for us because He loves us and we were that bad off, so lost, so unseeing, completely depraved.
God and sinner are reconciled now. We have the chance to reclaim what God created us to be; eternally alive, living according to His design, and it’s all because He came to be born a human child and live and die among us, and then to be resurrected, the first fruits of all who will be granted eternal life, our original design.
That supernatural and mysterious truth, when it comes clearly to me, comes accompanied by a lovely peaceful rejoicing Spirit.
Isaiah saw the truth of Jesus’ coming, and prophesied it about 700 years before Jesus’ appearance. Daniel saw the coming of the kingdom and announced the timetable something like 490 years before it actually happened. But nobody really knew what God was going to do. It was so unimaginable.
The Passover lamb pictured it, and we can see the type clearly now, but before the coming of the Holy Spirit, it was not seen that God would come Himself to be the Lamb, identify with us, atone for us, heal us, and finally take up residence within us, at the price of His own blood and suffering.
Charles Wesley wrested very well with this truth in his 1738 hymn,
“And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior's blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me?
How can it be? Wesley asks, and it is still hard to imagine, even impossible to grasp. But understanding it is not the requirement. We must only believe.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. Rom 10:9