Not an Accident

As we are approaching Easter I have been thinking about the death of Christ and the resurrection. 

The cross was not an accident.  It didn’t take Jesus by surprise.  It wasn’t the result of a world plummeting toward destruction.  It wasn’t a stop-gap measure.  It was anything except unexpected.

The cross was all part of the Master plan.  It was a calculated choice.  It had been planned since the Garden of Eden.  The cross was always part of the deal. 

Reading the Old Testament and all the prophecies about the death of Christ, you have to know that God, who sees the beginning and the end, knew that Jesus would have to suffer and die when he created Adam.  It was the plan. 

They (the trinity) choose to create man knowing that it was that creation that would cause Jesus to have to suffer and die. 

Jesus was in on it from the beginning and yet Jesus choose to create you knowing what it would cost him.

 

Genesis 1:26 “ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."