Questions about Jesus: 5. How could Jesus die for me when I wasn’t yet born?
How could Jesus die for me when I wasn’t yet born?
Taking merely a cursory glance at this question leaves any answer seeming illogical making it easy to quickly dismiss what Jesus did that afternoon on a cross outside Jerusalem. However, if we look at the issue seriously for a moment longer we will see that actually what Jesus achieved was indeed for you and me.
Jesus is God, and because of His love for us He left the lofty heights of worship and adoration in heaven to come earth. He came to die – the only person who was born with that intention.
That begs the question as to why did He choose to come to earth if He knew He would die? He came because you and I need rescuing. God, unlike a human, doesn’t just see today, or yesterday – He sees tomorrow too. In fact, more than just seeing the future, He knows the future. He knows what will happen tomorrow. Nothing takes God by surprise. God never holds an emergency committee meeting because something has happened which took Him by surprise. God has never said, “I didn’t expect that!”
God is outside of and beyond time. God is not constrained by hours and days. He is the creator of all things including us. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows the sins which we have committed, and those that we have yet to do. So too, Jesus’ death encompasses both yesterday, today and tomorrow. When Jesus died on the cross He bore the sin of the past, the present and the future. All our sin was future sin for Him, but He paid for it all when He died. His death is all sufficient, for all people, in all times, which includes you and me. For that, we can be eternally grateful.
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