Justice or Mercy

Precious gifts surround me, but nothing is as great as the salvation within. I looked out across the vast night sky and the stars shouted the glory of God tonight. Who could make such wonder? Random change would never have a chance, our God did this, He spoke and creation leaped forth from nothing. We cannot really even imagine nothingness. In our empties moments, our lowest moments we have breath in our lungs, we have life. While the stars sing His glory in the night sky, they are not our Fathers’ favorite creation, we are: humanity. Who could make life from nothing? Only our God created life from nothing.  Who could blow into a mound of dirt and have a living soul emerge? We are the apple of our Father’s eye.

If we were left with only a creation story we would wonder what went wrong. But most of the bible is the redemption's story. It the story of how God would bring humanity, in its brokenness, into a right relationship with its maker. Jesus did the work of redemption at the pinnacle of time. He fixed the basic problem that caused the curse on creation. He fixed the sin problem. He died and bore our sin, and rose to life again three days later. Then a while later He left this earth, He didn't die again, He rose into heaven.

So you might ask, “If Jesus fixed the sin curse on creation, why’s it still messed up.” Well you might say were in a holding pattern. We are in the time when we the gentiles (anyone who is not a Jew) have a chance to believe Jesus died for our sins and be included in the family of God. If Jesus after rising from the dead simply cleaned up the earth, most of it would die because they would reject Him. But, now some 2000 years later technology is such that the whole world knows about Jesus.

There is a surpassing greatness in knowing Christ; it surpasses all that we know. Soon Jesus will come back to set everything straight in the world. But, now we are in a time to receive His mercy. The future holds His justice.

What do you want justice or mercy?