Look to Jesus for He Alone is God - PART 202

What future is there when people vainly conspire against the Almighty God? When nations choose to create futile plans? And these same foolish nations plan their little plots against Almighty God? The global turmoil that emerges should be apparent, particularly when the Kings and Rulers of the earth assemble themselves together with a common cause against you Lord and against You in Christ.

Yes, Lord they muster together against your holy child Jesus whom Lord you anointed and consecrated and marked out as Messiah (or God with us). But it was not only Herod and Pontius Pilate that conspired with the nations. The people of Israel also conspired! Indeed, all unredeemed men and women at one time or another plotted to carry out what your hand and your will had destined should happen from the beginning. That is, in order to remit the sins that had entered the world by one man Adam, the Lord provided a way of redemption. In fact, if we think about it, the people (in their ignorance) still accomplished all that thy power and wisdom had already decreed.

Lord, hear our prayer. Give attention to their threat. Enable your servants to speak your Word with freedom of utterance, with all fearless courage, and to continue preaching your message of deliverance! Lord, stretch forth your hand to heal so that signs and wondrous marvels may be performed by Christ Jesus who indwells You the Almighty God. Lord, we wait with expectancy as our enemies -- your enemies -- are put to flight by the preaching and delivery of Your redeeming Word of Power.

This is why Jesus is referred to in the scriptures as the first and the last. The alpha and the omega. Indeed, Jesus is the light brighter than the noon day sun. God has decreed that in all things, Jesus who is God manifest in flesh as a Son, shall have the pre-eminence. All things were made by Him and for Him. He is before all things and without Him, there is nothing made that is made.

But men and women, as a result of laying aside the counsel of God as his directive, have become enemies of God. And separate from God, men and women devise all sorts of hopeless plans. Indeed, even those remedial plans that may sound good and are endorsed by eloquent orators become akin to the analogy of more hot air being espoused. Nations that do not serve God do not prosper, just like the cake in the oven that fails when the right ingredients are missed.

Still, in spite of man's initial response to God, our God in Jesus the Christ by His wisdom and power devised a plan of salvation whereby men and women could be reinstated into fellowship with his creator. But we need to recognize, like the cake illustration, that Jesus is the missing ingredient. We need to acknowledge the God who was in Christ --- Christ in God. For God has glorified His Son Jesus. God has declared that Jesus not only was in the Christ, but that He (being Jesus) is also the Lord over all things. This explains why the angels of God worship Him - Jesus. It also offers a rational as to why men and women (and nations) fall.

But it does not have to be this way. When we personally make our own individual personal declaration that this man Jesus is the Wisdom and the Glory of the Spirit of God, we are no longer blowing hot air. Just like the scriptures in John 3:16, God is not willing that any should perish. He wants to converse with each and every one of us. He wants us to know that JESUS is the Resurrection and the Life.

Look to JESUS for He Alone is God! Christ in God will save us from the deceptive promises of unredeemed men.