Nature is a curious thing. It seems we’ve all been programmed with a survival instinct - an overwhelming drive to stay alive. This instinct is in all of God’s creatures. However, there is another instinctive programme that overrides the survival instinct - it is a parental instinct. Nature shows us that when young are threatened, both the mother and father will override their own survival instinct and fight to the death to protect them. What makes an animal, programmed to survive, suddenly forfeit its life so its young may live? Where did this selfless and loving instinct originate and who is the programmer? This loving instinct originates with God and He is the programmer. Through Adam, we all sin and are under the penalty of death and judgement. We must remember, God is perfect, God is law and He must condemn or He would not be perfect. However, there is another facet of God’s character - He is a parent and we are His children. So as a parent, God has a dilemma - His children are threatened with judgement at death and He must judge them, yet the thought of His children suffering is abhorrent to Him - He would die to protect them. That is why He willingly came to earth as a man (Jesus Christ) and forfeited His life so we could survive. As our substitute, He took the punishment from judgment onto Himself so we could have eternal life - evidence of a perfectly loving God. (Job 3:16)
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:27:03 +0000
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