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To: JPX2011

Nobody needs to go to Jesus through ANYONE.

Jesus is accessible to all people all the time.

There’s no mediator people need to get to Jesus. HE is the mediator Himself between man and God.

Yes, we have a direct line to Jesus.


1,057 posted on 09/18/2014 7:50:54 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
"Nobody needs to go to Jesus through ANYONE."

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True.

And Jesus did not need to come to us through ANYONE either.

But Jesus DID choose (in His magnificent, Holy Will) to come to us through someone -- one person -- Mary.

Why do you think God chose to come to us through one solitary person, Mary, when He obviously could have come here to us without coming through anyone at all?

And God could easily have informed Mary directly of His Holy Plans, but He chose instead to give her His message through another created being (the angel Gabriel).    And Mary gave her message of "be it done to me..." back to God (who, of course, knew it already) through that same created being, Gabriel.    Why did God choose to use an intermediary / go-between for those tasks when He could easily have just done all of them Himself?

And God could have written every single word in the Bible directly Himself (or imparted them to us in some other way of His choosing), but instead, He chose to use human intermediaries to write every single word in every single "book" of the Bible.    Why did God choose to use intermediaries to write every single word in the Bible, even though He could easily have done all of that writing or imparting Himself without using a single intermediary?

Do you see a pattern?    God LOVES to use His created beings to act as His intermediaries, and has done so over, and over, and over again, throughout human history, as copiously attested to and recorded in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.    In that way, He can give His Holy Blessings to both the "end user" and the "middle man" at the same time, thereby multiplying His Blessings simultaneously, which God obviously loves to do.

This "go-between action" does not (and cannot) detract a single photon from God's Glory.    (It is not possible for human beings to detract anything from the Glory of God.)    And by God using a go-between, it does not reduce the efficacy of the Blessings of God one tiny bit.    Do you think God cannot do just as much powerful good while at the very same time making use of the modest efforts of a cooperative go-between created being?    (Is anything too hard for God?)

God loves to use small, weak specimens of His creation to do wonderful, powerful things with His help and enabling power.    If God offers us two tools to use to make petitions and requests to Him (one being to approach God directly, and the other being to approach God indirectly, through a sympathetic intecessor, is it smarter to use just one or the other of those two tools God gives us, or to make full, prudent use of both of those tools?

1,060 posted on 09/18/2014 9:51:37 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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