We live in the age of the impersonal. Convenient as electronic communication is, it is easily cold and detached. Job terminations and broken wedding engagements - matters once only communicated face-to-face - are now sometimes handled through emails. Fortunately, the God of the universe has never changed His method of communication and contact with His created beings.
I recently re-read and re-considered the creation account in Genesis. All of God's creative acts were accomplished through His authoratative, spoken word - except one. While He could have given a word of command to bring the first man into existence, He literally took soil in hand and fashioned the form of man, and then breathed life into the man's nostrils to give him life. Thus, we are the most personal of all God's creation.
As it was at the beginning, so it will be at the end, when time gives way to eternity in the perfect age to come - God will personally touch and comfort His human creation.
"and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away" (Revelation 21:4)
As in the beginning, God could just as easily give a word of command to accomplish His purposes. But here we see the tender picture of a Father gently wiping the tears from the eyes of His beloved redeeemed creatures - once and for all eternity. He will personally bring to an end all cause of sorrow, pain, and grief; primarily because death will forever be banished from our realm. And that is a truth we can scarcely wrap our minds around in this imperfect age.
If the God of the universe was this personally involved at creation, and will be at the dawn of eternity, what does this say about His involvement with us today? He is not the God of the impersonal, like our electronic communications so often are today, but instead He is the God who touches rather than issuing a word of command. And His most personal touch of all comes through the hands of His Son, our Lord Jesus. He is the unique personal representation of the Father to us, the children of God. The One who personally touched the lame, blind, and diseased communicates the compassion of the Father through His personal healing touch in our lives as well.
Rejoice this day in the personal touch and involvement of your Father, and His compassionate Son. They both choose the personal to convey the power to each of us as we have need.
Steve
© 2010, Steve Taylor
I recently re-read and re-considered the creation account in Genesis. All of God's creative acts were accomplished through His authoratative, spoken word - except one. While He could have given a word of command to bring the first man into existence, He literally took soil in hand and fashioned the form of man, and then breathed life into the man's nostrils to give him life. Thus, we are the most personal of all God's creation.
As it was at the beginning, so it will be at the end, when time gives way to eternity in the perfect age to come - God will personally touch and comfort His human creation.
"and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away" (Revelation 21:4)
As in the beginning, God could just as easily give a word of command to accomplish His purposes. But here we see the tender picture of a Father gently wiping the tears from the eyes of His beloved redeeemed creatures - once and for all eternity. He will personally bring to an end all cause of sorrow, pain, and grief; primarily because death will forever be banished from our realm. And that is a truth we can scarcely wrap our minds around in this imperfect age.
If the God of the universe was this personally involved at creation, and will be at the dawn of eternity, what does this say about His involvement with us today? He is not the God of the impersonal, like our electronic communications so often are today, but instead He is the God who touches rather than issuing a word of command. And His most personal touch of all comes through the hands of His Son, our Lord Jesus. He is the unique personal representation of the Father to us, the children of God. The One who personally touched the lame, blind, and diseased communicates the compassion of the Father through His personal healing touch in our lives as well.
Rejoice this day in the personal touch and involvement of your Father, and His compassionate Son. They both choose the personal to convey the power to each of us as we have need.
Steve
© 2010, Steve Taylor
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