So why?

Sometimes thoughts hit me at weird times. Last night out of the blue the law of grace and the law of Moses was bumping around in my head.

Now of course I have asked myself many times why did God wait so long to send Christ, why did we need so much to happen first? God's timetable isn't ours, I know this yet never understood it. He is God after all trying to figure Him out is impossible for us.

Now saying these cliche'd answers doesn't really cut it for me. I need reasons, I need facts, data.

We (humans) sinned in the Garden of Eden. We brought about the curse, even in Paradise we were unable to curb the sin inherent in us.

God knew this so why did He create us knowing good and well the cost it would be to Him?

God had a plan before He made us. 

So why?

God is not given to naivete, or ignorance He knew what was coming.

So why?

God knew Lucifer would try to overthrow and subvert Him.

So why?

God then gave us the Law of Moses, a standard to measure ourselves against knowing we would not be able to reach it.

So why?

We as men then subverted the law and made it even harder than God intended.

We (the religious sect) then used it as a tool to further our own power, our own control.

We have taken everything He has given and we have perverted, twisted, added to, and taken away from it. We have truly been a disappointment of epic proportions.

So why?

We (the church) have made men "saints", something, someone to look to, to pray to instead of looking to God. We have taken the instrument used to deliver us a savior (Mary the mother of Jesus) and made her the focus.

We have taken our need for a tangible, seeable, touchable "god" and have ignored the big "G". We have taken Him and what He has done for us for granted.

We throughout history have grumbled, murmured and complained about God when it was us forgetting Him that caused our troubles.

So why?

Knowing we would fail, knowing we would reject His Son, knowing the pain and travail of the future why would He still go ahead and make us? 

What was the point?

Perhaps we can liken it to our own relationship with children. 

We know it won't go well, there will be pain and suffering as we raise them. We teach them right and wrong. We teach them (in most cases) to do good.

Yet they still go astray, they still make bad choices.

I love my kids (Jeff, Jess, Jarrett) with a love that is fierce and overprotective. Knowing they have flaws, knowing they will make mistakes.

I laid down the law for them - what to do, how to do it, to achieve a good life yet they do not always listen.

I would die for them if need be to save them pain, suffering.

God has done the exact same thing. Yet not only has He done it, He has put it into writing for us to see, and learn of Him experientially.

Perhaps the strangest part of this isn't knowing why He did what He did, but knowing our own love for those beings we (with God) brought to life why we can't accept Him in the same way.

We in our finite capabilities love and sacrifice for our kids, can God do any less? I think not.

We call God "Father" and He is just that the Father of all creation. The one who gave us life, who gave us purpose. We may have perverted that purpose. We may have made bad choices. We may have caused the distress.

Yet He loves us.

Do you remember the times your kids looked at you and smiled and for absolutely no reason you were happy with them and the joy they bring?

God looks at us the same way, knowing the few times of joy, the few successes we would have, the few moments of happiness, of fellowship.

God gave us life, we messed it up.

God gave us the Law we messed that up.

God has died for us, taken our pain, and we have messed that up.

The single greatest love is the love of a parent.

Only a parent can love that selflessly, that generously, and never look for payback, Or have an angle.

God gave us the law to teach us that we are unable to stand on our own. That we could never reach His standards. 

Just as my children will never reach my level of maturity, or wisdom until they are my age and have gone through all they must. 

So it is with God.

He has tried to keep us from the pain of bad choices, sin. Yet we do so anyway.

The real question then is - why?

Why would He continue loving us knowing full well we are a mess?

The simplest answer is - As I love my kids no matter what, So too will God always love us.

If you dwell on these thoughts, these processes of thinking it will surely bring to life the Love of the Father and the answers to why.

We have a simple picture of God's love for us in our love for our kids.

Yet His love is far geater, far deeper.

That is why.

He loved us.

Looking at your kids (or any kids) as they grow the absolute joy in a child's smile, the joy when you teach them and they learn and grow.

The pain when they mess up, when they think someone is cooler than their dad or mom.

The joy when they do good out of love, the pain when they think they don't "need" you.

All this fully explains why. All this tells me what God intended and why.

God is awesome in His power and wisdom. 

He has given us all the answers if we just look.

This is why.