There is a greater picture than just our small vision of a portrait.
A much larger plan than our own simple little lives…
and it has been going on since the beginning of time.
One day we will finish the race, look back and see that every hill, every obstacle, every time we fell, all had a purpose. And we know this by looking at the greatest most beautiful conspiracy of all… one that saved the world.
Many people in and outside of the church see the birth and death of Christ as a singular event, only pertaining to the New Testament. However, The Gospel, the good news, is NOT that Christ came to the world. It began long before that. The Gospel is the promise that the Jews held close to their hearts that God promised He would restore Creation and reconcile Heaven and Earth. That is the Gospel: the promise. Jesus is how He fulfilled this promise.
But this story is far more than a simple promise coming into being. It is the story of a battle which was fought since the Creation of the world between Light and Darkness to conquer the world. And although Darkness tried again and again to foil the plans of Light, Light had a greater conspiracy up it’s sleeve that was thousands of years in the making. From the moment Adam was created, he had a Savior, even though he had not yet sinned.
Many times we think of our hero being the one who tries again and again, and must tremble as he gets up to face yet another foe. Not in this story. In this story Light never trembles in fear, defeat, or exhaustion, but it is Darkness that tries again and again with little to show for it. And all the while the gracious Lady, Creation, lays in waiting in her dark tower, until finally THE Light of the World comes and sets her free.
