God was active, You were passive

So, we are talking about God and that how we view Him is the most important thing about us.

I find that a common misconception is that God is a passive God.  He sits it heaven and watches.  Some people believe that God is like a clockmaker.  He created the earth, and now he is just  watching it do it's thing.

Yet, this is not true.  Not if, we believe in the gospel.  The gospel speaks of an active God.   God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten son" John 3:16  He loved therefore He gave.  Jesus died and rose again.  These are all action verbs.  It doesn't say that He sat and watched.  It says that He came.

Now, we have talked about grace before.  Yet did you do anything to deserve God's gift of His son? No!! We were completely passive.  He lived the life we should have lived and died the death that we should of died, so that we could raise with him from the dead.  He lived our life, died our death, and rose again.  Sounds pretty active to me, but We sat and just took the gift, if you've become a Christian.

You were passive and He was active.

So, if you get on a plane and fly across the world to The Vatican and step into the Sistine Chapel this is what you see:

Now, I think I've talked about this before.  Yet, my whole life I thought that the gap between God's hand and Adam's hand was because of our sin and because of our sin, we were separated from God and God couldn't get any closer.  Yet, in reality it's because of Adam.  God is active; He is reaching down and seeking to touch his wonderful creation.  Adam is lackadaisical and could care less.  Adam is passive.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  Ephesians 2:1-10

Yet, the moment we were born we were dead, dead to our sin and objects of wrath.  Last time I checked,  a dead person couldn't really be an active person.  A dead person is a passive person.  Yet in Verse 4 God comes to the rescue and saves us by his love and mercy.  God made us alive.  

When someone can't breath and you do CPR.  The one that can't breathe is totally unconscious.   If it doesn't go right are you going to blame them?  No! your going to blame the one giving CPR.  They are the ones active.  

So, lets go on today believing that God is actively involved in our salvation and our lives.  He isn't just a clockmaker; He is the creator, redeemer and friend.