Fascinated

To think that God, Who has always existed, was never created, Who is second to none in rank, authority, power and intellect, has chosen to live in humans, to live in me, fascinates me.

fascinating:ˈfasəˌnādiNG/adjective extremely interesting. synonyms:interesting, captivating, engrossing, absorbing, enchanting, enthralling, spellbinding, riveting, engaging, compelling, compulsive, gripping, thrilling; 

I find it enthralling (I like that synonym) that He who sacrificed His son so that I could be made acceptable to Holy God finds me worthy of that price.  

I find it fascinating that God, Who could do anything He wanted, to whomever He wanted, in any way He wanted, chose to love me and you and place value on us.  What we see in ourselves may well be a lie if we see ourselves less valuable than God Himself sees us.  If the value of something (in this case, us) is determined by what Someone is willing to pay, what is the value of the 33 years Jesus spent in preparation to become the sacrifice, the bearer of all sin and disease? 

When we find in the Word of God, (a topic in itself fascinating, because Jesus is called the Word, the Word was His weapon of battle and should be ours, and the Word has been written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit and preserved through generations at great price by the persistence of men and the power of God) that Jesus endured every temptation we will ever experience yet lived without sin, I’m fascinated that the God Man chose to say “Nevertheless” by His free will in the garden instead of “No”.  

What love He had for the Father, that He would sacrifice Himself to bring us into relationship again with Him. There’s nothing that is more evidence than that…the Father wants to have relationship with us so much that He sent Jesus, who came and lived as a Man, who lay down His glory and picked up humanity to set us free from the oppression of satan’s bondage.

I’m thrilled by this one thing: God wants to be known as He is.  

Jesus, while on the earth in the body of a human, said that He knew God as God knew Him.  That’s intimacy, and possible for us, because we are joint heirs with Jesus. Because of what Jesus did, to as many as believe on Him, to us He gave the power to become the sons of God.  

That is eternal life.  To know God.  Jesus said that as He prayed for us.  Find it in John 17.  Eternal life is to know God, and Jesus, Whom God sent.  

To. know. God. The very concept of that is….fascinating.  I must know Him more. You too? Let’s do this!