What was God’s purpose in letting Jesus die on the cross? Was there a real plan of God for all that suffering?
Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
God doesn’t think like we think. God isn’t selfish or self-centered. He loves us with an everlasting love, no matter what we do. That in itself is amazing. Have you ever loved someone with no conditions or restrictions? It is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life. And this is how God loves.
So, if God loves us so much, why did Jesus have to suffer and die? Jesus being our examples proved to what extent that God would go to show us His love.
Hebrews 5:8 “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;”
Jesus didn’t have to choose to die on the cross. God gave Him the choice. Just as God gives us the choice on what to do with our lives. Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, asked God three times not to die. He knew what was coming and Jesus wanted to stay with us. But He also knew what the plan of God was and He played an integral part of that plan. If Jesus would not have die on the cross, we would not have been set free from the law of sin and death. That law kept us in bondage, slavery, all of our lives.
John 9:31 “Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth,”
The one thing about the law of sin and death, it separates us from God. And without God, we will struggle and die alone. And there is only one place that we can go separated from God. That is hell. The funny thing about hell is that we will know God and how much He loves us and never be able to share in that love. This is the torment of hell.
We have choice in this world. We can choose God and live with Him or live without Him. Without God we know that the consequence is the torment of hell.
Psalm 86:5 “For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.”
All we have to do to receive this freedom from God is to call upon Him, turn from our sin to God and accept Jesus into our hearts.
Crain Blanchard.
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