2. When the separation . . .

between God and human beings happened, it was because we
decided that we could be our own god, and we could manage our lives for
ourselves, and we declared our indepencence from Him.
When human
beings did that, we found out about good as well as evil, we lost contact with God and towards Him our spirits
became dead.
We became living dead people.
But God did not want us to
remain living dead people.
He did not want to lose contact with us
forever.
So He decided that He would bridge the gap between us
Himself.
He HIMSELF became a human being.
The human being who was God, is
Jesus Chrsit. He had always been God and had been an active participant in
the creation. But when He became a human being, He was born as a
baby.
When we got separated from God, we died spiritually, we
became corrupt in our thinking, in our emotions, in our motivations, and
our bodies began to die physically.
When Jesus Christ came, born
to a virgin through a supernatural miracle of God, He was not corrupt
in His spirit, mind, emotions, motivations or body. He did not have the
splendour of God. Instead He humbled Himself to human limitations.
At
first the lesser gods were angry, because they knew who He was, even
though many human beings could not figure Him out.
Then the lesser
gods decided that they would take advantage of this opportunity and kill
Him, because they had the right of death over every human being who is
corrupt.
The thing they forgot was that He was the only human being who
was not corrupt, and so they had no right of death over Him.
So
they killed Him on a cross: a very bloody, painful and humiliating way to die. But
God had planned things this way.
It is a principle of the spirit world
that the shedding of blood brings together the one whose blood was shed, with
the one for whom the blood is shed.
So the shedding of the blood
of Jesus Christ brought back the way of contact between God and human
beings.
This is how I know that God loves me:
He made a way for me
to contact Him even when I was dead to Him by my own choice.
He made this way for me even when I
was going my own way and even though I had declared my independence of Him
and told Him, "I will not obey You!"
God made this way of access
to Himself at great cost to Himself, even though it costs me nothing.
This
is how I know that He loves me.
But this God of the Bible has something even better in store!
