We like early warnings, for our tsunami, our tornadoes, our hurricanes, our smoke / carbon monoxide alarms, but at the same time we ignore, smoking causes cancer, diet drinks release excitotoxins that put holes in the brain, to much sugar (if you find honey eat only a little) is not healthy. Odd; how we treat different warnings, differently, doesn’t it just depend on, first if we believe the warning, and secondly, are we convinced the whatever it is, won’t happen to us?
G-D said, that when He was trying to turn His people away from sin, and toward a better (safer) way, that He would rise early, and send His slaves the prophets. He gives us the warning about what He will do if we continue, and how good it will be if we turn, and follow Him. (Dull of hearing maybe). We seam to be living in a society with a sociopathic tendency. A lot of people don’t seam to have much empathy for others, how our actions impact others.
Just for a short while, lets wonder what it might have been like to be G-D. Does our sin hurt G-D, would our sin give the evil one grounds to accuse, even G-D in His own heaven (remember Job)?
If G-D is like a father, lets look at some fathers, Jacob (Israel) lost Joseph, and would not be comforted, he lost Simeon, and was angry, but when he had to give up Benjamin in order to save his whole family, it was like a sentence of death to Jacob (if my gray head must go to Sheol in sorrow)
Another time their was a father who waited a very long time for a promised son, only to be told to sacrifice him on the mountain. You recall the rising early, the three day trip, the journey up the mountain, the question of the son, “where is the lamb”, the time to build an alter, the binding of his only son, the last bit of hope gone, (we do see in a later record, that he was convinced the G-D would raise the son back up to life). Oh; and, the answer to the question the son asked, was that G-D would provide Himself a lamb.
G-D rose at the right time and provided Himself.
Behold the Lamb
For G-d so loved the world, (Abraham was promised that “in his seed the world would be blessed”) that He gave His only begotten Son that whoso ever believes in Him will gain eternal life.
What is like to be G-D, concerning you,
Is it Sorrow or Singing?
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