I’ve always been good with logic. i can easily understand something when there is logic behind it. when you want something explained to me, or if you want me to fully understand a situation, using logic is a sure fire way of doing it.  so you see, i am having difficulties understanding concepts  like “Jesus saved us by dying on the cross and He paid the price” or “His blood cleansed us from our sins and forgave us all”, because logically speaking, these concepts are really not, well, logical. My capacity to understand such symbolisms is achingly, if not, embarrassingly limited. It is  rather frustrating on my end  because everybody SEEMS to understand what these things mean. I honestly dont. i cannot, for the life of me,  fully comprehend these concepts in a literal logical sense.

How did His blood cleanse us? How exactly did Jesus’ death save us? He died. that is not a big deal to an omnipotent God. He could do EVERYTHING. Having  all these powers,  dying is not a  worry because He can come back to life again in a blink of an eye. and that, He did.  Death is not a problem to a very powerful God. I later found out i was missing the whole point. The essential one.

As a kid, i just try to accept bits and pieces of  my knowledge about God that my sabbath school teachers and Bible told me as  given facts and not question anything at all. like the concept that the world is round and pi is equals to 3.1416.  something constant and unquestionably definite.  No wonder Christ wanted us to be like children again. The child like faith is something very priceless.

As an adult, my wandering mind started to question things and tried to figure out those symbolisms for clarification. Particularly Christ’s death and how it affects me.  or at least SHOULD affect me. i came up with my own understanding of the whole concept. Here it is:

The point of Christ’s death is not literally death itself.  Because like i said death to an Almighty God is nothing. To me, the whole point of Christ living here on earth as human is Christ living here on earth. AS HUMAN. This is where His immeasurable love comes in. Who in his right mind would give up divinity to get his hands dirty for ungrateful people? It is His amazing humility inspite of His infinite power that is illogical. In the same breath that i said death is nothing to God, it makes me wonder what if  God decided to just “re-do” everything and start all over again by wiping earth clean and just creating a new earth?Besides, He owes us nothing. Now, that is logical.

His death saved us in a way that it gave us HOPE that we could be saved if we choose Him. He lived here on earth, just like us, with weaknesses to personally demonstrate to us that we could overcome sin. When they said He endured alot of sufferings, i equated it to the physical pain he experienced when He was brought to the cross, not fully realizing that it was the whole process of living here on earth and being helpless and tempted to use His divine powers to solve everything just to show us that complete dependence and surrender are the only ways to live is what His whole suffering is all about .

God is not a fickle God.  The line “With great power comes great responsibility” is quite apt on God’s situation. And im VERY grateful for that.

Jesus coming down to live with us, dying for us, enduring for us, showing and demonstrating grace and love inspite of our misgivings are illogical deeds. Especially for a great God.

I am very happy that we have an illogical God in that sense.

So I concluded love would never be logical.

And I would choose love over logic anytime.

Even if it’s difficult for me to grasp the whole concept most of the time.

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