Monthly Archive for October, 2007

God’s nature is immeasurably greater than ours. He is infinite, eternal and unchanging. We are finite, limited & changing. He is God the Creator and we are human creatures. As Isaiah said, “Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand” (Isa 64:8). It is a humbling thing to be likened to clay and to let God alone be God. To acknowledge that he is actually the only one in ultimate control. Why is it so important to believe this? When Adam sinned, he brought sin and death to both himself and to all his descendants. As a result, all born naturally have a sinning nature. Here is the verdict: “The Lord looks down from heaven…to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one” (Ps 14:2-3). As Paul concluded, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). The dilemma that our sin created was that we all became lost, absolutely incapable of saving ourselves. Praise God that he did not allow us all to go our desired way towards sin and eternal death! He had decided to show his love, making a divine choice.

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