"I, even I, and He that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins." Isaiah 43:25
The forgiveness of God is found within His own nature; it is not based upon any merit of ours. God did not send Christ because we deserved it. What we deserved is exactly what we chose in Adam: the not-God, outer darkness, Hell. God sent Christ not because of who we are, but because of who He is. We are fallen, broken, cursed, defiled and diseased. We deserve nothing and can merit nothing except damnation. God is love, holiness, goodness, grace, justice, and mercy. He cannot help but act in a loving, holy, good, gracious, just, and merciful way. Christ is the result of everything God is responding to the reality of Sin, and this response has revealed the beauty of His soul.
Christ is the beauty of God's soul, the revelation of Himself in His entirety. The Incarnation was not only God made flesh, but also a revelation of His nature. God (being who He is) could not and would not simply ignore Sin. His response had to be, and that response was, the Incarnation, a revelation of all that He is. Christ reveals a God that, though men may not believe in Him, at least they will know that there is a God worth believing in.
"Christ the Glory of God,
The Revelation of Deity's Soul.
Though the world is bitter and ugly,
Heaven is Sweetness and Beauty..."
-Jon Vowell
The forgiveness of God is found within His own nature; it is not based upon any merit of ours. God did not send Christ because we deserved it. What we deserved is exactly what we chose in Adam: the not-God, outer darkness, Hell. God sent Christ not because of who we are, but because of who He is. We are fallen, broken, cursed, defiled and diseased. We deserve nothing and can merit nothing except damnation. God is love, holiness, goodness, grace, justice, and mercy. He cannot help but act in a loving, holy, good, gracious, just, and merciful way. Christ is the result of everything God is responding to the reality of Sin, and this response has revealed the beauty of His soul.
Christ is the beauty of God's soul, the revelation of Himself in His entirety. The Incarnation was not only God made flesh, but also a revelation of His nature. God (being who He is) could not and would not simply ignore Sin. His response had to be, and that response was, the Incarnation, a revelation of all that He is. Christ reveals a God that, though men may not believe in Him, at least they will know that there is a God worth believing in.
"Christ the Glory of God,
The Revelation of Deity's Soul.
Though the world is bitter and ugly,
Heaven is Sweetness and Beauty..."
-Jon Vowell
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