created something He said it was good. When He finished As Jesus walked on the earth, He was reaching out to creating everything, He said it was very good. God loved those who did not know Him. He was reaching out to His creation; it was special to Him because He made it. those who rejected Him. He wanted to restore the picture God’s favorite of all His creations is man. That is you that had been scarred, that sin had defaced. That is why He and me, and all the people on the face of this earth. When came to the people who knew Him not. He had compasGod made man, He breathed into him the breath of life sion on the blind man and touched him. He healed the and gave him a never-dying soul. You possess a soul that sick and raised the lame man. He began fixing what sin will live through all eternity. had corrupted. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us because Think of this: God loved His creation so much that the Bible says He came and dwelt among us. How marvelous He wanted to save us. Jesus came to restore what sin had destroyed. He came to fix the is that? God said He would send picture. He came that the world His Son and have the Word live might be saved through Him. on earth with us. We are created He did not come to condemn or in His image, and He came in that Jesus came to execute judgment—though one same image and dwelt among us. day He will. He came to seek and Verse eleven says, “He came unto restore what sin had save those who were lost, and He his own, and his own received him did it willingly for you. He came not.” Try to picture Jesus Christ, the destroyed. He came to make the change in your heart One who created everything, walkto fix the picture. that only He can make through ing down the streets of Jerusalem, His shed Blood. walking through the marketplace, I am so thankful that He came walking around those residential willingly for me. He personally areas where the people lived, going came and put Holy Ghost convicpast the synagogues, through the tion on my heart. He caused me to olive orchards, and mingling with crowds of people. Remember that this was God walking feel sorry for my sins and gave me a repentant heart. He on earth as a man among us. He made it all, yet we read was reaching for me; He sought me. He called after my that His own knew Him not. It is hard to imagine! They heart and asked to come in, and when I let Him, He made could not recognize the very One who held their lives in a radical change. He put His peace down inside. I knew about the Blood of Jesus, but on the day that He saved me, His hand. Can you imagine how that made Jesus feel? Something had changed since the Creation. God could Jesus Christ applied the Blood to my soul. What a differnot look and say it was good as He had back on Day Six. ence! He gave me that relationship in my heart that sin Sin had entered into this world and altered what God had had destroyed way back in the Garden of Eden. He made a made so good. Sin had defaced the picture. Before sin new picture of my life. If you are not saved, the Lord wants to change your entered, Adam walked and talked with God; it was like Heaven on earth. Adam and Eve were the only two people heart today. He came to take away the sins of the world. who walked on the face of the earth and knew what it was Has He taken away your sin? There is no other way to like to live in a sinless world. They knew what the perfect reach Heaven. Look to Jesus, the Creator who was made picture was. They knew what it was like to walk and talk to flesh and dwelt among us to take away sin. He died for you! He would love to once again breathe into you the their Creator face to face. Then sin entered, and the relationship between God breath of life—real, eternal life. He loves His creation; you and man was broken. Can you imagine how this grieved are special to Him. He is still reaching, still calling, and Jesus Christ as He walked on this earth? When He walked still trying to fix the picture of your life. He wants to make the streets of Jerusalem, He knew the problem of the man you ready for Heaven. If you don’t know Him, ask Him that just went by. He knew the thoughts of the woman into your heart. He will meet you and change your heart, who walked toward Him. When Jesus went by a lame making you ready to live with Him for eternity. man, He felt his pain. He knew every heartache, every sin, Wayne Butler is pastor of the Apostolic Faith Church in every care. He must have thought, This is not what I had Van Buren, Arkansas. planned back when I created man.
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