Scripture Verse that caught my attention today—1 Timothy 1:15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.
Observation: This age old question comes to mind; if God made everybody, why did God make ‘sinners’ that needed to be ‘saved’?
Application? It may have all started as a divine experiment; will creation love its Creator? Answer? No. Now what?
That question may have prompted another; will the Creator continue to love his/her/its creation. Answer? Yes. Now what?
With Father’s Day around the corner, no doubt there will be considerable emphasis on the blessedness of fathers and the corresponding blessedness of children young and old. That’s well and good and it makes perfect sense to focus on the positive whenever possible. Still, just below the surface is the low-grade fever of a corresponding awareness; not every father has acted in a blessed way, nor has every child.
Watching this all play out, of course, is the Creator of the universe. Every human act of disobedience and self-centeredness stings as a painful reminder of good intentions gone awry. The creatures do not, in fact, love the Creator, sometimes even when they sing Kum Ba Ya!
Yet the Creator still loves the creation. The divine Son was in fact sent to save the fallen humanity. Some realize it. Some don’t. But the foremost expression of divine love still stands, or hung, as it were, through the cross. All ‘foremost’ sinners take note.
Prayer: Lord, we would all be lost without you. If we could treasure you even a fraction of the amount you treasure us, my what a different world it would be. And yet, through your own Son, it already is a different world. Sin may be close at hand, but because of you hope still springs eternal. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(Scripture readings today included: 1 Kings 1, 2, 3; Psalm 82; 1 Timothy 1)
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