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Scripture: Hebrews 2:9-18
Song: Wonderful Story of Love
You cannot reflect long on God’s redemptive scheme without wondering with David, “What is man that You are mindful of him?” God has made man His occupation. All creation, even the angels, serve some role in God’s plan to save sinners. God has spared no expense.
The sun, the moon, the stars sing to us of His glory. The birds, the beasts, the teeming seas all declare the Maker’s praise. The seed, the plant, the flower, the fruit all tell the tale of His providence. There are still other productions—the craft of spirit-beings who arrange the sets and work behind the scenes—the effects of which we witness but the operations of which are still a mystery.
In a single day you will pass a thousand vistas, and hear a thousand songs, and be told a thousand tales all with the singular purpose of producing in you a single impression: God has been mindful. And all these spectacles of nature are orchestrated to make mindless men mindful of God.
Were God’s investment in our salvation limited to these countless expressions of His care, it would be enough. Enough to attract our attention. Enough to prod our amazement. But not enough to save. It took another investment. It took a Son. It took a cross. It took a tomb. It took Jesus.
It took all creation and God’s only Son to redeem sinners. It took the best. It deserves our best in return.
Jason Moore
