The Sign Of The Sabbath Series

I figured I must have done something wrong. So I put the potato back in the machine, pressed the buttons, pressed start, watched the light go and the plate go round and round. When the time was up I opened the door and pulled the potato out again. It was still cold.

I did that 4 times before I figured out that my microwave wasn’t working! (Pause)

Undaunted, I figured it might just be a fuse or something that I could replace, so I went over to my computer and tried to look up a tutorial on that particular model. What I found took a little while to decipher, but essentially I saw a bunch of diagrams I couldn’t understand, followed by instructions that went essentially like this:

IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING you can replace these 2 or 3 items on your microwave. But, IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING, you probably need to find someone who does. You see, there something called a capacitor in your microwave that stores up electricity even after you unplug the model… and if you go poking around where you shouldn’t be poking – you can electrocute yourself.

(LONG PAUSE)

So I went out and bought myself a new microwave.

Here’s the deal. I don’t have a clue about what makes a microwave work. I don’t understand the inner workings of those machines. But I do know that when they do work, all I have to do is punch the proper buttons and it does marvelous things. I don’t have to understand the machine for it to work.

And God tells us that’s always going to be true about Him. There’s always going be something about Him you’ll not understand. In Isaiah 55:8-9 God tells us

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

God is so far above our understanding that is pure folly to say “Well… something can’t be true because I can’t grasp the concept”. And this concept of God being Father, Son and Holy Ghost is no exception. The Bible clearly teaches this idea and I just need to accept that it’s going to be hard for me to comprehend - and let it go at that.

But now, here’s the BIG question: why would Jesus care if we knew He was God?

And the answer is this: Jesus cared because ONLY God could do what Jesus came to do. It mattered, because - Only God could offer Himself on the cross for our sins. NO mortal man/woman who would be pure enough to take our sins upon them.

In Isaiah 59:15-17 God spoke of the coming Messiah. And we read:

“The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him. He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.”

God looked everywhere and could find NO ONE who could bring us our salvation… so He did it Himself. Salvation was something that only God could do.