“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Luke 13:34, NIV 1984).
My Musings – Much the same could be said of mankind down through the ages. Many are simply not willing to accept God’s terms for salvation. They insist on the terms being “my way” and not “Yahweh.” It’s not that God is “not willing.” He went to extreme measures to provide “the way.” “For I [Jesus] have come down from heaven not to do My will but to do the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of all that He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. For My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:37–40, NIV 1984).
Even if there could have been “another way,” it would not be unreasonable for God to insist we come to Him by only “His way.” For we, the created, are the offending party and He, the creator, is the aggrieved party. So, there is no “other way.” For offences against a purely Holy and righteous God can only be paid with a purely Holy and righteous offering. Only God’s Son fulfills that requirement. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to men by which we must [or can] be saved.” (Acts 4:12, NIV 1984). If there was “some other way,” His coming and His crucifixion would have been wholly unnecessary.
My Advice – God longs to gather you in His arms. Do not be unwilling. “[Look] to the Son and [believe] in Him [and you] shall have eternal life.” For “whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the Name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:18, NIV). Do not let “your way” get in “His way.”
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