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What God Did

It is impossible to list everything God has done. Looking at the initial act of creation of the physical universe leaves us overwhelmed. But then He did not just make it and walk away. He sustains it. It is through His power that the whole thing holds together. He supplies the energy for all of the chemical reactions, biological growth, and physical activity within the universe.

But that is not all God has done. Read the biographical accounts of Christians and you’ll see all kinds of divine interventions in the personal circumstances of God’s people. I believe that this is something most of us are barely aware of, let alone tap to our advantage and God’s glory.

Some will tell you that it is easier to start something from scratch than to renovate something that has deteriorated. Experience has taught me that there is something to this. A few years ago, I started to renovate a century old farmhouse. Some suggested we bulldoze the place and start fresh. I thought it would be easier to work with what was there.

I soon discovered that I had taken on a huge challenge. All kinds of adjustments and accommodations had to be made for things like sagging floors, unsafe wiring, and inadequate plumbing, not to mention that there didn’t seem to be a ninety degree angle anywhere in the place.

God faced an even bigger renovation project after sin entered the world. A cursed physical environment, broken relationships, hard hearts, overt rebellion, subtle disobedience, and more all had to be dealt with. It would have been easier for God to have destroyed everything and start over, but He loved the creatures He had created, so He launched into a renewal project that would include everything from the souls of individuals to the universe as a whole.

When I think about what God has done, my mind inevitably goes to the cross where God did something unimaginable. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, we read that God made Jesus, the One “who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” In the ultimate plot twist, God placed all of the sin of humanity on His Son and judged Him on the cross. And that’s not all. He then attributed Jesus’ righteousness to every individual who would believe in Him.

When it comes to what God did at the cross, there’s a world of difference between Jesus, the righteous one, being made sin for us and us, the sinful ones, being made righteous in Him.

Ron Hughes
© November 2008