Tuesday, June 16, 2009

God: The great physician.

Something we often seem to miss is that God Is perfect; And, as I said before, he is unchanging. This creates a dilemma for most People (yes even Christians). I mean, How do you describe perfection? I mean Honestly, c'mon how do you do it?
Nothing in our lives or this world is perfect, so what can you compare with to describe perfection?
He is not just 99.9 percent pure this is the real deal.

But here is the thing, being perfect no sin or evil can be in his presence, period.

I suppose you could look at it like the “Black Plague”.
The Plague, or Black Death, was spread by Infected fleas, which lived on rats and then spread to humans.
Once a person was infected there was the chance of the disease being spread in a form called pneumonic plague, which attacked the respiratory system and was spread by breathing the exhaled air of the victim.

It decimated the known world in 1348 with some reports stating that up to half of the people existing then died.

Now in order to stop the disease, you either have to stop the carrier or destroy the disease.
Usually it is easiest to stop the carrier of the disease, this does not require anything special in training or fabrication and the disease, hopefully, will not spread any further.

In order to do that you might kill the carrier, the rats or fleas (or even the people)that spread the illness, or you can quarantine the infected until the disease has passed and is no longer virulent.

Sin is a lot like disease, and all of us are infected. So to keep God from being contaminated he might keep us away. But there is also the second possibility… antidote/vaccination or destroying the disease itself.

God offers us a way to do this. We just have to accept it.
And that is what Jesus did on the cross. His blood acts as the vaccination for our sins. He died that we might be saved. We were not allowed in God’s presence (quarantine) because of our sin but because of God’s love, and Jesus' sacrifice (antidote) we are able to come into his presence.

And that is probably the closest I can come to offering you the chance to see what Sin is like compared to God.

Now the question is... will you accept the antidote? Or do you think that is too harsh?
If you went to a doctor and he said you need to have a certain medicine or you will die, would you accept the medicine? or would you turn around and walk away saying... "I do not like death and for you to give me that ultimatum makes you mean and harsh."?

I hope for your sake that you choose the medicine.

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