Pure and Precious

Good gracious, is there anything whole anymore!  ​A bag of sugar ​can be four instead of five pounds, a ream of paper less than 500 sheets, newspapers are thinner and slimmer, and even ​a package of ​fun-size candy bars ​is six instead of eight. Before long, donut holes ​will grow bigger! There's a whole lot of hole less whole these days!

 

​The Christ is both pure and whole!  For ​purity to exist, something must begin ​that way and remain so during ​the process unto completion.  Dustin (son#3) inspects tractors after they leave assembly, ​meticulously looking ​for defects that cause product quality to be compromised.  Man's problem was definite - sin; sin's cure was particular - salvation; salvation's criteria was pure - a savior ... One Who "will save His people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21).  ​The Savior -- with God before creation (John 1:1) ... ​Laid aside His equality with God (Philippians 2:6) ... Conceived ​by the Holy Spirit into virgin flesh (Matthew 1:20) … ​Lived and died as human yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15).  Why would One completely  pure, absolutely whole, choose to fix me?  "In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.​" (1 John 4:10, AMP).  ​There's something pure and precious about the Hebrew Babe.  He may have slipped into the world simply and quietly but He lived and died to change the world, one soul at a time.  Pure and Precious is He!