He Is God

"God did not create a fragile planet."

MEN SAY this is a fragile earth, but instead, it is that our rebellion makes it seem that way. God did not create a fragile planet. He knew what it would undergo and has plans to heal it. Not just humanity upon it but the earth itself and its creatures. All life is important to Him, and He does hold regrets. God’s regrets are not human ones. We cannot see His perspective and so misunderstand the deaths of people. We ask, “How could He allow people to die without knowing Christ?” and “What of those before Christ came to earth? What of those who died in Noah’s day?”

God has the broadest shoulders of all and full knowledge of the thoughts and intents of every man’s heart. His godliness to endure the losses of those lives does not make Him hardhearted and unmerciful. It is, instead, that He showed mercy on humanity which was completely corrupt and on the verge of annihilating itself entirely (Genesis 6:5). He waited that long to “be sure” all men were beyond the capacity to change, (though that is a wrong phrase, God has no doubt). Also, He did not judge those who were righteous. He saved them. He did not judge those who were “mostly sinful” but those “entirely sinful,” who held no repentance for their actions. They taunted Noah, mocking him for over 100 years while he built the boat. That is a long time to have to see yourself and repent.

We can see the same thing of Sodom and Gomorrah, whose wickedness became so vile, brimstone destroyed their cities. But see that God removed Lot and warned his family not to look back (Genesis 19:17). He would not destroy those who still walked upright, after His character. We can ask, “What if He’d left the cities alone?” Abraham pleaded with God to save them if there were just 10 righteous (godly) souls (Genesis 18:32). How serious is it when God Himself raises His hand of mercy from people?

See now Israel in the book of Isaiah and the other prophets, how God forgave them for His name’s sake. No one would look at the Hebrew God and either say, “He’s too soft,” nor “He’s hard-hearted.” What He wanted mankind to see, what He still wants mankind to see, is He’s the way to think right, to act right, and to live well and whole, and He will go so far as to die for men in their sinful, rebellious, hateful state. Jesus died with mankind calling out His crucifixion, though they acknowledged He’d done nothing wrong. His heart (His motive) was right in it. He loved and because He is God; He saw individuals by name. Not a mass of humanity, which we categorize today by numbers and figures, but all of us and where we’d be when we saw Him.

It’s too much for the human mind, and that is the point. He is God. We are not.

“For since—while we distrusted God and fought against him in every way—his Son died to win us back to trust and friendship with himself and to cure our rebellious hearts, how much more, having won us back to trust and friendship, will God heal all the damage caused to us while we were in rebellion against him! And even better still, having experienced this healing of mind and heart, we are overjoyed because God, through Jesus, has made us his friends.” (Romans 5:10-11 Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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