I Once Was Blind, But Now I See

For thousands of years, God’s children looked forward to the coming Messiah. They longed for a permanent sacrifice of their sins. Sure, they appreciated the law that God had given to them, but were ready for the one who could fulfill what Adam could not. You know sometimes we dream of how something should be carried out, and it ends up looking completely different than what we had swimming through our head. The children of God had dreamed of a brawny soldier type of person, the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords, riding in with a giant war horse in pomp and circumstance. Many thought he would come to help them annihilate their enemies, not realizing that sin was the enemy. God had different plans. Around 700 years before the Messiah’s arrival, Micah 5:2 gives a little prophecy. “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old,   from ancie...

All of Adam and Eve’s children, and the rest of humanity, are engulfed with an inherited  disease called sin. Let’s look at a few verses. Let’s be clear, the curse of sin didn’t just impact humans. It affected everything! Romans 5:10 and 12 “For if  while we were enemies  we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men  because all sinned Romans 3:11“ None is righteous, no, not one;    no one understands; no one seeks for God. Ephesians 2:1 And  you were dead in the trespasses and sins   According to these verses, all of mankind falls into one category at conception. We are all unrighteous, dead, enemies of God, who have zero moral inclination to even seek after Him without an outside source doing something on our behalf. Looking at my life, I know I stand guilty....

  Many of us have been taught to have a plan B just in case plan A didn’t work. In the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers,” the U.S. forces were being overrun by the enemy. When everything seemed to be lost, Mel Gibson got on the radio and said two words “Broken Arrow.” This means to come into the area with everything they have. There is no separation of the U.S. and the enemy forces. Just bomb everything. That is a plan B or C. As sin cursed beings, we are confined to react on our own strength. God, on the other hand, is never confined by anything. He is the all-supreme Creator. Before we try to understand Creation, let’s explore a few verses that give us insight into the plan God set in place prior to Creation. Ephesians 1:3-5   “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he  chose us in him before the foundation of the world , that we should be holy and blamele...