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God Met Ons – Vir Ewig!

God Met Ons – Vir Ewig!

“Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe het” (Johannes 3:16 NKJV, beklemtoning myne).

God het Jesus nie aan die mensdom geleen nie. Jesus het nie bloot as ‘n mens verskyn, soos die tyd toe Hy Abraham besoek het nie (Genesis 18:16-17). Die Seun van God het mens geword!

Sy naam sal genoem word “Immanuel – wat beteken ‘God met ons’” (Matthéüs 1:23, NIV 84).

God het uit die hemel neergedaal om by ons te wees, nie net vir 33 jaar nie, maar Jesus, God die Seun, is vir ewig met ons!

“Daarom, toe Christus in die wêreld gekom het, het Hy gesê: ‘Slagoffer en spysoffer het U nie begeer nie, maar ‘n liggaam wat U vir My berei het’ (Hebreërs 10:5 NIV 84).

“Want vir ons is ‘n kind gebore, aan ons is ‘n Seun gegee; en die regering sal op sy skouer wees. En sy Naam sal genoem word Wonderbaar, Raadgewer, Magtige God, Ewige Vader, Vredevors” (Jesaja 9:6, NKJV beklemtoning myne).

God het ons sy Seun gegee om ‘n ware mens te word, met menslike “vlees en bloed, Hy het ook deel gehad aan [ons] mensheid” (Hebreërs 2:14 NIV 84). En Jesus behou sy menslikheid vir ewig sodat ons kan weet dat God met ons is, dat God vir ons is, dat God nie vir ons skaam is nie:

Beide die een wat die mense heilig maak en die wat heilig gemaak word, is van dieselfde familie. Jesus is dus nie skaam om hulle broers te noem nie (Hebreërs 2:11 NIV84, beklemtoning myne).

Deur die ewigheid heen, is ons wat sondaars is, gered deur genade, nie tweederangse burgers in die hemel nie; ons word nie as misdadigers op parool beskou nie. Deur Jesus se offerande, deur ‘n ware mens te word, is ons spesie nader aan God sou Adam nie gesondig het nie. Deur Jesus word die mensdom verhef en vereer tot ‘n hoër posisie en ‘n nouer verhouding met God as wat Adam in sy onskuld kon geweet het. Jesus, God die Seun, is nou ten volle mens, en deur Hom regeer ‘n mens nou in die hemel, ‘n mens sit nou op die troon, ‘n mens regeer nou die kosmos (Jesaja 9:6) – en hierdie wonderlike God van liefde is nie skaam om deel van ons familie te wees nie!

En deur Jesus, wat nie net die Seun van God is nie, maar ook die Seun van die mens is – die afstammeling van Adam, ‘n lid van ons menslike familie, op hierdie planeet, waar Satan sy banier geplant het, waar Adam se heerskappy deur die bose oorgeneem is, waar sonde en boosheid floreer, en die skoonheid van God se skepping bederf en verduister is, die enigste plek in die heelal waar sonde oorvloedig is – hier is God se genade des te meer oorvloedig, aangesien Jesus nie net mens geword het nie, nie net Satan verslaan het nie, nie net die mensdom verlos het nie, maar Hy sal ook die setel van God se regering na die aarde skuif en vir ewig in die toekoms van hierdie planeet af regeer (Openbaring 21:2-3)!

Wees in verwondering, staan verbaas, laat jou hart verneder word in aanbidding en liefde, want ons Skepper God skaam hom nie vir ons nie en sal nooit vir ons skaam wees nie – Hy het ons lief en verlang net om ons te genees van alle sonde, alle gebrek, alle hartseer en seerkry! Hy verlang daarna om elke vrees weg te neem, om ons te reinig van alle skuldgevoelens, skaamte en sonde; om elke tekortkoming te verwyder en om ons te herstel tot gelykvormigheid aan Christus in alle dinge.

God is met ons!

“Want diegene wat God tevore geken het” sal sy liefde ontvang en hulle harte in vertroue vir Hom oopmaak, “dié het hy ook voorbestem om gelykvormig te word aan die gelykenis van sy Seun, sodat hy die eersgeborene onder baie broers kon wees. … Wat sal ons dan in reaksie hierop sê? As God vir ons is, wie kan teen ons wees? Hy wat sy eie Seun nie gespaar het nie, maar hom vir ons almal oorgegee het, hoe sal Hy nie ook saam met hom ons ook alles genadiglik gee nie? … Wie sal ons skei van die liefde van Christus? Sal moeilikheid of swaarkry of vervolging of hongersnood of naaktheid of gevaar of swaard dit doen? … Nee, in al hierdie dinge is ons meer as oorwinnaars deur Hom wat ons liefgehad het. Want ek is daarvan oortuig dat geen dood of lewe, of engele of demone, die hede of die toekoms of enige kragte, nie hoogte of diepte of enigiets anders in die hele skepping ons sal kan skei van die liefde van God wat in Christus Jesus, onse Here, is nie” (Romeine 8:29-39 NIV 84, beklemtoning myne).

Wees bly, o hemele! Wees verbaas, o aarde, want God is met ons – en ons kan kies om by Hom te wees!

 

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