God's Plan To Call Us Home

Imagine a young teenage girl, living in a small town. She is a good kid with good grades in school, but today she made a mistake. She broke the speed limit. There was no emergency or other excuse, she simply chose to do things her way, as we all sometimes do.

As the officer wrote her ticket she didn't get too stressed. She knew one thing that this policeman did not - her dad was the town judge.

On her court date she picked out what she knew was her father's favorite outfit for her to wear and bravely walked into court. One by one the line infront of her got shorter as she heard her dad rapidly execute justice to those in the front of the line. "Guilty. Guilty. Guilty," she heard. Over and over again thieves, abusers, and other lawbreakers were receiving a healthy portion of the justice system.

Then she approached her father. Looking up at him she smiled as she thought about the surprise that would soon come over her audience's faces when they heard the word "innocent."

She briefly made her case and waited for her father's response:

"Guilty, that will be $200.00," the verdict rang down!

"What! But dad, I didn't mean to!" she replied, "Dad, you know I don't have that much money!"

Fighting back her tears, she stood shocked at the verdict. Then tenderly her father said, "You're right...I know you can't pay the fine, but you broke the law, justice demands payment."

"I don't understand," she replied, "what can I do?"

Her father smiled and said, "Nothing, just be glad I'm your dad." With those words the judge slowly pulled out his wallet and took two crisp $100.00 bills out of his pocket and paid his daughters fine.

What else could a father and a judge do? If he ignores the transgression that makes him unfair and partial, but how could any loving father give a child a hopeless judgement. By paying the penalty himself, this judge was able to be both just and gracious.

This is how God treats mankind.

The Bible is a book of relationships. From the very beginning man had a wonderful relationship with God, but by man's choice sin entered the world, seperating him from God.

When we choose to sin, we also seperate ourselves from God because He is totally pure and holy. This seperation breaks God's heart.

However, His justice would not allow our sinful rebellion to be ignored, nor would His love for us allow Him to walk away from His creation.

So God, Himself came to rescue us from our sins in the form of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 2:5-13)

The only question that remains is whether or not we will become a child of God. Will we allow God to pay our fine?

We would love to help you study the Bible to find out more about God's plan to be both just and gracious.

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