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I've moved to a different book now.....and it really makes me think of some things about Jesus I didn't ever think of before.

Like......Jesus was/is God and man all at the same time. This we already knew, but the fact we tend to focus on a lot at Easter is his resurrection and the empty tomb. But listen, we should be even more shocked that he even DIED at all. The fact He was/is God and died a human death is even more compelling.

When I let this sink into my little brain, it is hard to swallow, yet so true.
Being God in the full sense and man at the same time, he didn't ever need to die. He's eternal. He everlasting. He formed the world and all of us. And think about this.....he made people and the ones he made BEFORE he was ever conceived in Mary are now the ones to see him as a baby in his little bed, visit him as a toddler, watch him be a kid while running and playing, watch him work with Joseph in the carpentry shop.....I could go on and on.

These are the people he made and planned to give life to long before creation......and to think they were already born and on the earth, and he formed each of them, before he came out of Mary's womb. He was in the flesh helping his own creation in the flesh. He knew before he came to earth who would accept him....who would get a miracle.....who would listen to his teaching.....who would whip him.....who would condemn him.....who would help nail him to the cross......who would prepare him for burial.....who would stand and guard his tomb. All these things and the people to do them were already figured out before he ever got here. The timeline was set long ago and Gods timing for it all including the people to receive and have a hand in all these events is no accident.

Nothing with our God is ever by chance. I think about different things that happen on earth. We always want reasoning, but we don't always get it. For the person in the car accident.....or the cancer diagnosis.....or the child who gets bullied at school.....or the ER nurse that gets to hold her patient's hand while he takes his last breath. All these things are orchestrated In a perfect sequence or series of events. Ever wonder why you had to wait longer in traffic? Or why you are that nurse and just there at that perfect time to hold the patients hand? We can't wonder too long, or spend tons of time trying to explain it all. Just realize Gods timing is perfect. We are always in the right place at the right time when it comes to His ways. Nothing is ever out of his full control. Nothing is a shock to him or ever surprises him.

Just as Jesus and the events he went through on this earth were never by chance......it's the same for us. We can have such a peaceful life when we realize these things.