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His Return,—the Centre and Climax of All His Plannings
His coming into our midst in human garb was because of our going away. We had gone away from Him. He came to us. He had a wondrous plan for living in our midst as King. But sin broke the plan. His coming again is to finish up the plan broken at the first coming.
God and man were together in a garden; it was a wondrous garden, trees, flowers, fruits, singing birds, beautiful animals, and a river of water of life clear as crystal. Together they talked and walked and worked, finishing up the work of creation. Then man went away, then farther away, then he lost his way back, then didn't want to come back. God never went away, and has never gone away. He remained, and remains, in all life just as before, but unrecognized, largely, not wholly.
Through two thousand years He has called and wooed, but the ears grew deafer. Then, while still wooing by His presence, He prepared to come in a new way that they could not fail to understand. A new nation was made. It was to be His new doorway in. Through it He would come as a Man. It took a long time to get the doorway ready. At last He came to it, so He could get through it, into His world in this new way.
But the door was all barred, logs crossed over it, up and down, and overgrown with thorns and poison ivy. But His love impelled Him to push through, carrying the crossed logs as He came, all torn by the thorns, dreadfully scarred, but He reached His race; and some began to understand the fire of love in His heart.
But that trouble at the door interfered with the full carrying out of His plan. He had a wondrous plan of love for the whole race through coming personally in this new way. Sin broke the plan. He gave His life to rid man of the sin. Then He planned that His friends down among men—those who had understood His love and purpose should go and tell all the others. Then He planned to come back again, and carry out the great love-plan interfered with by that trouble at the door.
And He will. So He says. And He has a way of getting the thing done that He has set His heart upon. Some of the dear friends He sent out to tell the others have not kept the plan quite clear in their minds. This has delayed things some. But the coming again is the very centre and climax of all His plannings, and He has never been known to fail. His love is a fire whose flames never burn low, nor lose their fine glow.