“God would never have allowed His first workmanship to be
so scarred by sin if He had not planned to build a more magnificent structure
out of its ruins.
God chose to give this treasure of reconciliation to
humble us, so our haughtiness might bow and God could be exalted in our day of
salvation. "The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
gives life unto the world John 6:33. And notice why God chose that method to
feed His children in the wilderness: "Who fed you in the wilderness with
manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you” Deuteronomy 8:16.
Let us examine this humbling process more carefully.
Naturally we assume that the Israelites would have become wise as well as
humble when God Himself fed them with "angels food" Psalm 78:25. Yet
man is proud and wants to be his own provider; he does not enjoy a meal sent in
by charity, at another's expense, nearly so much as he does food which he
earned himself. This pride made the children of Israel wish for the onions of
their Egyptian gardens-- inferior food but food bought with their own money
instead of brought to them by God. God's reconciliation to sinners was aimed at
a more perfect union than He had with Adam.
God would never have allowed His first workmanship to be
so scarred by sin if He had not planned to build a more magnificent structure
out of its ruins. Because He intended to print man's happiness in the second
edition with a more perfect type than the first, He used Christ as the only fit
instrument to accomplish this design: "I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more abundantly" John 10:10. He did not
come to give the dead and damned a bare peace-- naked life-- but a more
abundant life than man ever had before sin separated him from God.”
Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete
Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell.
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