When we read the remarkable nature of scripture, we often place ourselves right in the thick of every chapter and verse. Among the people we have become most familiar with, in the many lands in which they sojourned and journeyed. Suppose as we often say, knowing what we know, if we could go back we would change a whole lot, and maybe the more we know, the more things stay the same. Consider the complexity of biblical history would our response be any different than Adam and Eve in the garden, or would we as well fall to the same temptation in which the serpent used the word of God but twisted it in such a way that it sounded believable, nearly truthful. Would we likewise, among the mockery that Noah endured for seventy years, have steadfastly continued building the Ark, or would we have wavered under the immense pressure and ceased to do what God had appointed. And yet many use Lot’s wife as a lasting example, turning back, ever so slightly to see all my earthly belongings destroyed. Would we abuse the authority granted to Moses or would we like the rest of the inhabitant’s moan about the wilderness desiring to return to another four hundred years of bondage under the Pharaohs of Egypt? It is safe to assume that while imagination is a worthy tool, it is best for us to remain where we are, right now, in the present as we would most assuredly repeat the same. We often walk away with more questions than definitive answers as we ask in the simplistic nature of children “why” and “how come.”
Romans 5:7-8
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
