TRANSFORMING THURSDAY.
Today's post builds on yesterdays post as well as building on our memory scripture for the month. So, I hope you take a minute to connect back with yesterday's post before continuing here.
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God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (who some refer to as The Trinity or God or The God-head) created the world. It is a whole study in itself to understand this 3-in-1 concept. Genesis 1: 26 says of The Trinity,
Then God said,
"Let Us make man in Our image,
in Our likeness,
and let them rule over...
...all the earth..."
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JESUS IS MY CREATOR!
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God, The Trinity, is holy! He cannot live with sin because He is pure and good. He is the opposite of sin and evil. It wasn't too long after He created mankind that His creation was deceived by the father of lies. Adam and Eve bought into the lies that sin and evil were okay. Thus, began "the human condition". Then, the dilemna arose: how could God's creation live with God in a community of holiness and love when they had embraced and/or tolerated sinfulness and hate?
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God came to earth to be several things for mankind:
- To be "God with us" - to walk among us and to be able to model how to live the human life victoriously. Matthew 1:22-23 says, "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"-which means, "God with us."
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Many people only know Jesus as the baby in the manger from the sweet Christmas stories. It is when people embrace the concept that Jesus (God) chose to come in the form of a baby that it becomes mind-boggling. He chose to become humanity. He grew up on this planet. He walked this earth to model for us the true way to live and die.
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John 1 tells us that Jesus, The WORD of God, became flesh and dwelt among us!!!
Fourteen chapters later, John quotes Jesus' words as He encourages us to watch Him, follow Him, believe Him, live like Him, and live with Him...
"I am the WAY
and the TRUTH
and the LIFE.
No one comes to the
Father except through me.."
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It looks like our good CREATOR is telling us that it's all about Him. In a word: JESUS. Understanding that concept is TRANSFORMING!!!!
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