God's Character Revealed

[Darryl Thompson]

God's Character Revealed 

     But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:8.  

     The fall of man, with all its consequences, was not
hidden from the Omnipotent. Redemption was not an
afterthought, a plan formulated after the fall of Adam, but
an eternal purpose, suffered to be wrought out for the
blessing not only of this atom of a world, but for the good
of all the worlds that God had created. . . .  

     When man sinned, all heaven was filled with sorrow. .
. . Out of harmony with the nature of God, unyielding to
the claims of His law, naught but destruction was before
the human race. Since the divine law is as changeless as
the character of God, there could be no hope for man unless
some way could be devised whereby his transgression might
be pardoned, his nature renewed, and his spirit restored to
reflect the image of God. Divine love had conceived such a
plan. . . .  

     In the work of creation Christ was with God. He was
one with God, equal with Him. . . . He alone, the Creator
of man, could be his Saviour. No angel of heaven could
reveal the Father to the sinner, and win him back to
allegiance to God. But Christ could manifest the Father's
love, for God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
Himself. Christ could be the "daysman" between a holy God
and lost humanity, one who could "lay his hand upon us
both" (Job 9:33). . . . He proposed to take upon Himself
the guilt and shame of sin--sin so offensive in the sight
of God that it would necessitate separation from His
Father. Christ proposed to reach to the depths of man's
degradation and woe, and restore the repenting, believing
soul to harmony with God. Christ, the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world, offered Himself as a sacrifice and
substitute for the fallen sons of Adam.  

     Through creation and redemption, through nature and
through Christ, the glories of the divine character are
revealed. By the marvelous display of His love in giving
"his only begotten Son," . . . the character of God is
revealed to the intelligences of the universe. 

>From That I May Know Him - Page 18