This week is the week where the Christians celebrate the greatest occurrence in all of human history.
The Risen Son of God who died for those He loves.
This week can be a deeply reflective time for some who have suffered many things and many times.
For them we pray that the love of God will come to them in a wave of peace, comfort, and..... rest.

Can we imagine where we might all be if God hadn't chosen a nation and called them Israel.
Or given humankind the commandment to Love God and Love Others.
And sent His Son to die to make the New Covenant with Jew and Gentile effectual.
And given the entire world an Age of the Church, a period of time for people to be adopted as Children of God.
And set in motion a New Heaven and a New Earth to restore what humans and Satan tarnish.

And then had a Book called the Bible, written, preserved and passed down through the ages to sinners just like you and me.
Revealing to us who God is, what has happened to get us here, where we are, and where all of Creation including us is headed one day.
And that every human who has ever been created will be resurrected and judged according to the Book of Life.
Into one of two eternities.
One multitude spending all of eternity with God in untold Light and grandeur.
The other multiple spending all of eternity with each other in darkness and totally apart from God.

This life we live and these breaths we take are by grace. God's Grace.
It's called common. But it not called ordinary, obvious, or of no consequence.
God loves what He creates and He alone sustains it.

The rest of anything else humans might know about anything incredible is called Revelation.
Creation.
The Son of God, who name is Immanuel - God with us - who walked among our forefathers
And Scripture. A Holy Book handed down through the ages to us.

There are so many blessings in God's Revelation that any sincere human reflection realizes that only God's Word does them justice.

It's all in the greatest story every told.
This week is the best week to share the Gospel Story with people you know.

Here's a video link I send my kids, my grandkids, and all my family to remand us all to THANK GOD for all that we have.


Blessings,
Mark

I will prefer not to imagine such a world. Today happens to be my birthday, that is minor to the greatness I feel today!!

I don't think I have to " imagine " it .

No

Thanks for that post. I was just thinking about this in an atheist I know.. We would be like animals the world would be unrecognizable I would imagine.

You mean like humans slaughtering other humans all over the world?

Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

That was written 3,500 years ago, Gary. Not much has changed.

John Lennon could, but he got shot by a guy who claimed that “it was the will of God” that he should kill John……

Didn't John Lennon mock God?

He imagined a world without God in a song or 2. That’s what made his killer decide to kill him.

Lennon said the Beatles were "More popular than Jesus". Call it a coincidence.

Yes

Even Jesus wouldn’t let religious zealots kill sinners when he was present……Maybe God had a different take on it.

Mark,
Thank you for sharing that with us!

Mark,

It is difficult to say what would happen if something had not happened in history. For me to imagine such things is simply day dreaming, really, and I might be accused of embracing fiction in those circumstances.

However, I will say this. I know, first hand, what my life looked like when God was not at the center of it, but I was. The man I was, I now despise. I was many shameful things which have no place on a child friendly board such as this. Who I was resulted in a man who could not find joy in his life, though it was sought in so many wrong places and things. Slowly, but steadily, God's grace led me to a place where I began to understand where things could be different. I had a whole lof of reasons to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior, mostly because I simply wanted and desperately needed the "fire insurance" He could offer. But it was when I finally decided I would permit Jesus Christ to be my Lord, that my life began to look different. In time others saw it too.

Such things can become quite poignant in one's life when we tell folks how much we never want to see that old, sinful man in our lives again. But the most revealing day is when those you love and are closest to tell you face to face, eyeball to eyeball, that the man you once were is never welcome in their lives again and they never want that man near them again.

That's the day you truly begin to see the beauty and grace of God at work in your own life and can give thanks for the love of the Father; who loved us so much that He was willing to send His Son to live among us, be tempted as we are, to be led like a lamb to slaughter, to be tortured, beaten, crucified as a criminal though he was truly innocent, and to bear the sins of the entire world wrought by the wrath of God, to purchase the freedom of a sinner's soul, that we may spend eternity with Him!

The day is coming for us all, when we must decide whom we will serve. And that is an eternally important decision, literally, with eternal consequences.

I have no idea what this world would have been like in so many instances, but I certainly know what my world looked like without letting God be sincerely in it and at the epicenter. I know for a fact it certainly ain't no way to live life to the fullest.

“Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:14‭-‬15 NASB1995

If you want to know what the world would look like without God-just take a look at China.
The Chinese are a Godless people and society.
87.2% of Chinese population have no religion.

One idiot shooting another idiot.

I don't have enough imagination to imagine a world with one I guess. But I find these kind of threads interesting none the less. They show a lot about human nature

Watch the Passion of Jesus Christ.Not much left for the imagination.

That was a great movie.The Jews in Hollywood blackballed Mel Gibson for making that movie.
They didnt like to be reminded that their ancestors sentenced the Christ to death.