The real trouble with truth is that it is so dirty some of it. Our lives have muck in them which we have to deal with. We want the truth to be clean and tidy. We want Laws of physics to be so too. But our lives tell us things are messy, embarassing, sometimes or even often downright shameful and any real answers have to be as real as our actual lives. Jesus took all that and had to live a human life in a human body to be a real priest for us. They offered Him wine on the cross but they put it not as wine but as effectively disinfectant (vinegar was used to mask smells by Romans and maybe kill germs even before they knew what germs were) on what was normally used as a lavatory brush or butt cleaner after the lavatory (a sponge on a stick) and raised it to His lips on the cross. Love is real and gets messy when necessary for those loved. God in Jesus did that for your sake. God is prepared to meet us where we are. Jesus was like us and can come to us in our real lives to really help us.
You see, God's magic was that making His Son and human with the filthiness that entails and shame of real human life and putting it (Him, Christ Jesus) on effectively a pole of wood and having it be raised up God was providing a cure to look at and be healed of guilty shame. Now Jesus can truly mediate. You and I have to choose. Either the eternity that you get from what you hsve done till now and will do before you die, or the eternity Lord Jesus the Christ has bought you by dying on a cross whereby He rose from the dead to the new life of resurrection He has now. You choose for yourself. I choose the latter even though it was bought for me by another and not my own doing. I hope He gives you grace to choose the same. God bless you either way but blessings can be yours that last forever if you choose right.
You see, God's magic was that making His Son and human with the filthiness that entails and shame of real human life and putting it (Him, Christ Jesus) on effectively a pole of wood and having it be raised up God was providing a cure to look at and be healed of guilty shame. Now Jesus can truly mediate. You and I have to choose. Either the eternity that you get from what you hsve done till now and will do before you die, or the eternity Lord Jesus the Christ has bought you by dying on a cross whereby He rose from the dead to the new life of resurrection He has now. You choose for yourself. I choose the latter even though it was bought for me by another and not my own doing. I hope He gives you grace to choose the same. God bless you either way but blessings can be yours that last forever if you choose right.
