”Some say God did not know any other way to do it. But
how pitiful is any attempt of created understanding to fathom the
unsearchableness of God's omnipotent wisdom-- to say what He can and cannot do!
Yet we can say, in full reverence for the Majesty of heaven, that God could not
have found a better way exalting His own glorious name and purchasing sinners'
peace, than by reconciling them to Himself by Christ the precious Peacemaker.
This mysterious exchange has in itself the ability to
solve all the difficulties of the enmity between man and God, and for wonder it
exceeds even God's workmanship in creating the world. Now this creation is so
perfect and glorious that it tells every creature that its Maker is God, a
knowing which puts the atheist to shame in his own conscience because he will
not believe. Even so, the plan of reconciliation excels the creation of heaven
and earth as greatly as the watch surpasses the crystal, which covers it.
Indeed God intended, by this way of drawing sinners to Himself, to cause both
angels and saints to admire the mystery of His wisdom, power, and love in it--
from now through eternity.
When at last all angels and Christians meet together in
heaven, the whole beautiful counsel of God will be unfolded to them! At that
time we shall see how the seas of unbelief were dried up and what rocks of
impossibilities were cut through by the omnipotent grace of God, before a sinners'
peace could be secured. We shall learn how the Father worked to bring it all to
completion. Surely we will be swallowed up in adoring the abyss of His wisdom,
who laid the foundation of all this peace according to the eternal counsel of
His own will! As the sun exceeds the strength of our natural vision, the glory
of God's peace will stretch beyond our capacity to understand it.”
Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete
Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell.
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