restorer

Have you ever had a visit from people that you know, that you just had to get the house spick and span for? You know they have been coming for some time but you just didn’t get on with the clean up quite early enough! It seems strange to me that when Jesus came to our earth only a small number of people really got to know about it although it did ring bells for that significant few but nobody seemed ready. The angels knew of course and came out in full support. The wise men were seeking and found him as all true seekers do. The shepherds were blown away by it because for them it was totally unexpected and the king, in his palace in Jerusalem, knew too and tried to snuff out this new threat to his throne. And then, but for one brief appearance at the age of twelve, we know nothing until he explodes on to the scene at the age of thirty – healing the sick, raising the dead, the blind receiving their sight and the lame walking.

Jesus comes, showing us the Father, showing us what is good and perfect and inviting us to follow Him. When He called his followers he promised that He would change them from the inside out. In Mark Ch1 v17 it says, "Come, follow me, ……. and I will make you fishers of men." Their world was turned upside down. The only world the fishermen had known up to that point in time was fishing in the Sea of Galilee but now they would catch men and women for Jesus in the ocean that was the Mediterranean world. From there others would take up the call and are still taking up that call today - and so it will be, until the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the glory of God!

Jesus came and lived amongst us showing us what God is like, that He is trustworthy, that He is good, that He knows what it is like to be human and that He calls us to be with Him so we might experience his love. Jesus told stories like the prodigal son to illustrate it, He healed the sick to demonstrate it and laid down His life so we might experience it.

God is not the God who does nothing. Unlike Abba who sang, ‘The gods may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice, and someone way down here, loses someone dear’, God comes ‘down here’ in human form and lives amongst us and does everything to win us back to Himself, to heal us, restore us and set us on the path for glory! How good is that!!