preaching commentary
What is God’s essence? God’s primary motivation, desire, and purpose? What is God’s heart?
God’s heart is a heart of peace.
God could have chosen to stay distant – holy yet detached or absent. Instead, God chose to come, to be made flesh.
God could have come as a king- triumphant, affluent, imperial. God could have come as a warrior- laying waste to all enemies.
Instead, Jesus says,
Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
—John 14.27
God could have come as a king or a warrior or some other expression of earthly power. Instead, God…
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