Why Would God Have a Mission?

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mark 1:1).

Any mission requires work, sweat, and cost. A difficult mission usually involves setbacks and sacrifice. Why would God go to the trouble?

Not because he had to. The Bible never pictures God as incomplete or frustrated, in need of something more.

Not because someone told him to. If God took orders from someone else, that someone else would be God.

Our only answer is that God had a mission because he wanted to. That’s great good news. The Creator of the universe, the God who commands all things, is a lover above all. All the other attributes the Bible uses to describe God revolve like planets around this central and wonderful core: God is love!

That’s why Jesus came.

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