| Thoughts Across the Garden Gate
from Parson Don Ca�on City, Colorado - U.S.A |
| Updated: 26-December-2006
� 2006 -"Thoughts Across the Garden Gate from Parson Don" Donald R. "Don" Brown, Ca�on City, Colorado - U.S.A This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without permission Each devotional was written by Parson Don Website design by Marv |
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| If Jesus Had Not Come
- Page 1 In one of His discourses in John, Jesus starts with, "If I had not come . . . " The haunting suggestiveness of that thought is over powering. Gone in a moment of time is a million cherry lights and merry laughs. Just suppose Christ had not come. Suppose there had been . . . . . . no manger birth - . . . no star in the east - . . . no angel rhapsody - . . . no awe-struck shepherds - . . . no sermon on the mount - . . . no Healer of hurts and hearts - . . . no reconciling Cross - . . . no empty tomb - . . . no empowering Spirit - . . . no community of the caring - How can I be other than appalled at the mention of a conjecture so dark, smitten dumb in the presence of a fancy so grim? . . . How can I envision a world without . . . . . . the four Gospel accounts . . . the epistles . . . the atonement . . . . . . the Calvary-place where my sin and God's holy love come together in a meeting in which the defiance of the one is melted clean away in the furnace heat of the other. . . . The promise and prophecy of a Kingdom-of-God triumph in which "all human history shall be consummated in Christ"? . . . If Jesus had not come! What mind can compass the immensity of the gap, the vastness of the void, that would have been created in the human story? . . . History without the fairest Figure . . . Literature without its richest compositions . . . Eloquence without its loftiest flights . . . Philosophy without its most luminous insights . . . Theology without its Christology . . . Servanthood for others without its model and motive . . . Sin without a Conqueror . . . Heaven without assurance or allure Just a thought from Parson Don across the Garden Gate Donald R. Brown - Ca�on City, CO - U.S.A. |
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