If I Was God...

As I was reading my devotional this morning I got to thinking about this rediculous question: "What if I was God"??? What would I do differently than what the Creator of the universe do?? Well, for starters I wouldn't send my Son...my Only Son into the world to a small little nothing of a place like Bethlehem! Rome, maybe, but Bethlehem, never! What was the prestige of coming even TO a place so small and unimportant as Bethlehem?? Center of commerce?? Lots of important people living there?? Come on, even CNN wouldn't have been THERE! My Son would have deserved better than Bethlehem!! Lots of grandeur, lots of paparazzi, lots of very influential folks there to witness such as event!

And a stable? You have GOT to be kidding me!!! No room at the inn?? What kind of place is this anyway?? I'm sending God-Incarnate to the earth and I'm gonna send Him to be born around a bunch of cattle and stink and hay and cold...among lowly shepherds as the first visitors to such an occasion?? Come on, I have to have a better imagination than this!! This is appalling!!! Very UN-king-like, wouldn't you say?? And just who would believe such a story as this of the Messiah, the Christ-child which had been awaited for thousands of years!! And the Redeemer of Israel spent His first night on earth sleeping in a trough??? To even believe such a far-fetched story as this would take an enormous sense of faith, let alone to be a party to this and engage so as to bring gifts to the 'King'!!

Later this same Man would be taken captive in the middle of the night by a riotous mob that was bent on having Him killed--no not by their own hands but by the hands of the government! The Romans would do the dirty work, they would just submit the phony charges and accusations against this Jesus, Who is the Christ! If I was God, would I have allowed that??? Touch one hair on His head and it would have been over for the whole party of those who had come to dare take my Son into captivity for crimes that He had never committed!! I may have even killed all the people within a hundred miles of the Garden! Perfect, sinless, Holy and righteous!! He was beyond what any man could ever attain and yet he would be on 'trial' for what these men said was worthy of death. And try as they did, they were only able to find this last plea against Him...that He said He was God and King of the Jews...and a threat to the Roman king, Ceasar. The WHAT!!???

But you know what??? Of course you do, I am NOT God! Nor would my plan have been perfect! Even my reasoning here is VERY flawed!!! Reasonable in man's eyes maybe, but reasonable in the perfect plan of God, no way!! God's plans are not always our plans and His ways are not our ways, nor is His reasoning and understanding! Don't forget we are made in HIS image, not the other way around!! THANK GOD!!!!! What a mess I would have made of this Perfect Plan of Salvation!!! Perfect, absolutely perfect!!!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life"~ John 3:16

If I was God today, you wanna know what I would do about....

I can't stop myself ☺