One to bring salvation

Rom 5:17  For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

One to bring destruction.

One to bring salvation.

Individually we live our lives yet we are surrounded by others. All of us from the closest of our friends to the farthest stranger are offspring of God.  From those we call great among us, to those we call the worst among us, are offspring of God. From the brightest to the least bright, from the richest to the poorest we are all offspring of God. We were created by God and given the opportunity to belong to God- heart and spirit. 

Any parent knows that you can give birth or father a child but that doesn't mean you control that child's life from start to finish. What become clear truly is how unique an individual that child is from the get go. The personality starts shining through right away. From two incredibly shy parents a very outgoing and rambunctious child can be born and vice versa. As children of God we are also born with our own spiritual personalities. We can choose to remain a part of God's family or we can leave that family. We can destroy our spiritual connection to God. Just as human children can disown their parents, we can disown our God. We choose.

What we didn't choose was to bring sin into humanity. Yet we were BLESSED with life. BLESSED with the chance to belong to God spiritually. BLESSED to be pilgrims and strangers upon earth to have to opportunity to be reunited with our Creator through the power of our Redeemer.

Our God has redeemed us through the sacrifice of God the begotten Son, God in the flesh, God who suffered sin's worst assault. Before you start naming all the terrible atrocities that our Savior did not suffer, the ultimate assault He alone did suffer.  That assault was the complete and utter separation from His Father in a way we cannot and have not ever experienced- HE alone could take that experience as a complete innocent and suffer the eternal death.

Yes, He suffered the eternal death, the second death, the complete nothingness without any hope from the Father but still Jesus' faith did NOT falter to an end.  The words- "Why hast thou forsaken me.", were spoken in agony, but He did not give in to the temptation to sin. He held fast to the truth which is we must believe WHOLLY in God to be SAVED by HIM because we cannot save ourselves, we just can't. Jesus could NOT save Himself, if He had saved Himself He would have sinned, and He did NOT sin.

One man SAVED us, He is our example. We must depend wholly upon God through the gift of His Son's sacrifice, making salvation available to us.

Please, Father, help us be YOURS. Help us CHOOSE to be YOURS. We would be YOURS!  Please, Father, through the Son's sacrifice may we be YOURS. Forgive us! Save us! Love us always and forever!

Amen.