All these posts, and I really only have one thing to say. God created this world as a paradise of life and joy in the presence of his divine glory. We decimated that paradise by refusing to be thankful to him or to love him and others like we know we should. We made ourselves his enemies. But God has looked on the sadness, brokenness, evil, and hopelessness of our hearts and our world, and has determined to fix it in his grace. The Divine Jesus entered into our world and took our evil and suffering onto himself, and died in our place. Leaving our condemned sin in the grave, he rose from the dead, beginning a new world of love and joy and glorious reconciliation with God. The old, beautiful, broken world is rotting, and soon he will do away with it and everyone clinging to it, so that he can make everything new again. He welcomes us all to be reborn into this new world of love. This happens as we see this beauty, believe it, and turn loose of our rebellion to embrace Jesus.
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