Student Choice #4

TRUE IDENTITY AND CREATED VALUE

The Good News of Jesus Christ is truly a wonderful thing. We, as humans, were created to be sons and daughters. That is our purpose and destiny. God did not make trash, and He did not create us wicked and disgusting. He made us as beautiful and perfect. He said “it is good” when He made us. When we came into the world, we were innocent. We had the seed of Adam, the tendency to sin, in us, but we were spotless. As we grew, that seed grew and we sinned. We broke the connection that God wants to have with us and we live in a false identity of sin. That is why people are always angry, hurt, and annoyed. That is why man has started wars and murdered and stole. We became children of wrath. When Adam sinned, death entered the world and through one man all died. Through one man, the reality and consciousness of sin came into being and the Creation has been groaning for the sons of God to be revealed. But there is a Man who has come to take upon Himself the sins of the entire world. This Man was the Son. He was made like us in every regard and He was tempted as we are, but without sin. He did what no man before Him had ever done, but was fully capable of doing, being perfect. He lived born of a woman, under sin’s dominion, in the likeness of sinful flesh so that in His death we might die to sin and be free from its hold and through His resurrection we might be made whole. God sent Jesus to tell us that we are worth His blood. He came to restore us back to our original image because we have created value and worth to God. Jesus died and was marred beyond recognition and took upon our sin identity so that we could take upon His son identity. A scandalous exchange. A glorious transfer. A beautiful love.