A River Runs From It

You might think it preposterous that Jesus could be God. Why would God enter into time, die this horrible death, live a life of poverty, and all so that people could go to heaven forever at HIS expense. You might even say it sounds scandalous. Well, it does, but here's something I want you to think about.

Why do you think it's preposterous? I'll tell you why, because you know something of this infinitely holy omniscient omnipresent all powerful Creator that knit you in your mother's womb. You know His justice and His righteousness for all of creation declares it.
Its not up for debate and I don't care if you profess to be atheist or agnostic. You still know it, you just suppress it to sooth your conscience.

But here's what you 're missing...

you don't really know much about His mercy.

If you did the cross would make sense but as Dr. House would say "if something doesn't make sense its because one of your assumptions are wrong". Perhaps you've assumed that God the Father crushing His only begotten Son on a cursed tree for the sins of all those who would trust in Him is unjust. How could a father do that? How could a God do that? Letting someone else suffer for someone else's crime? isn't that unjust to the person hanging from that tree?

Not if the one on the tree chose to be there.

God chose to die so that you might be saved from the penalty due for your sins against the very One who chose to die.
 
Mercy is what you don't understand. See, on that cross justice and mercy met for the first and only time in human history I'm aware of. Justice was perfectly served and mercy paid for in full on that day.
 
God's mercy is like a waterfall that never stops. It is like a river which never runs dry. If you find yourself in it there is no end. Think about that.

Choose that today. Choose Christ.

Because if you don't God's justice is also like a waterfall... that never... stops. It is like a river which never runs dry. If you find yourself in it... there is no end...