If I compare Mt Everest with an anthill, I am going to run out of comparisons ve-ry quickly. Mt Everest is far greater and beyond comparison to any old anthill! Yet human beings do something very like that, almost daily – we define Almighty God by our own thinking. You cannot compare a superior thing to a lesser one, because the greater thing defies definition. Yet we compare Almighty God to the things that we already know, and we have no idea how self-centred we are when we do it. He is the Greater One – He defines US we don’t define Him.

Sometimes people say things like: “Why would God do this and this? Why did that person die?… Those people were good people.” OR .. “Why are there starving people in this world? Why are people born to live in pain? How can God be good when bad things happen?”  Um, because human beings live here and we do bad things!?? Duh! 🙄 He is God – He does not answer to us – yet He did and He does – His permanent answer is CHRIST.

Psalm 73:22 comes to mind. “I was senseless and ignorant;  I was a brute beast before You.”  In other words I’m so dumb – I can’t even begin to know what I don’t know. Praise God we have all eternity to begin to scratch the surface of what we don’t know! But …we … have … His … book and we find HIM is in His book, with the Holy Spirit’s help.

Almighty God doesn’t do things the way we do. Let’s look at some illustrations: God made the world. He created man and woman and put them into a garden that only had one rule.“Don’t eat from that tree.”Adam and Eve ignored that tree until satan pointed out that God was keeping: “His God-ness to Himself and if they wanted to be like God they needed to eat that fruit.” We all know how that ended. Badly! Then Father God had to ban Adam and Eve from their meeting place with Him. That was His loss as well as ours, you know.

Let’s move on … because I can’t summarise the whole bible in one blog! Almighty God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ to earth as an infant, and He grew up living alongside humanity. However … look closely … now God and man can walk and talk together again just like they all did in the garden – all because Jesus Christ is God come to earth and died. And that’s why satan tempted Jesus to use His miraculous power to look after Himself. Jesus is God’s living illustration for us, of how this life can be lived.

And He picked a thief for one of His disciples. He hung around with prostitutes, drunkards, sinners, sick people – all those people we avoid. What does that tell us? Jesus Christ was not afraid of being contaminated by SIN. Why not? Because there is another way to live and He lived that way right in front of our eyes in the bible. He lived His life in relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit whilst facing the same daily stuff we do.

He lived a life of unconditional Love. Christ rubbed shoulders with everyone around Him and treated them with loving kindness and wisdom, in spite of their sinfulness and rotten attitudes toward Him. He had His eyes on their destiny!Then He went to the cross and bought us the right to live like He did. Jesus Christ bought back what human beings threw away.

Disobedience expelled us from the garden of Eden, but obedience to His Will, His Way, brings us back into that same place of walking and talking with Him. The further we have all walked away from the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and Their Ways – the more corrupt mankind becomes… all by ourselves. Jesus Christ’s life and death and resurrection, gave us a Way out of our own sinfulness. Our response to that fact makes all the difference. 

The Lord Jesus once asked Peter a question that determines any human being’s destiny.”But what about you?” Jesus asked: “WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?”  Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”… Matthew 16:15,16. 👋🏻