"Made Ready"

"Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah." (Psalms 59:13) I know it is sometimes not pretty, but that does not mean God is not in it; if you think about what Jesus went through on that cross, it was horrible to even look at, but God was all over it! God's will sometimes does not make sense, it can even sometimes look as if the enemy has the upper hand, and that there is no way that God is involved with what is going on; but that is what is so amazing about God, His will is always made complete, in one way or another. It is rather interesting how David moves from "the God of Israel" to "God ruleth in Jacob", because before there was an Israel, there was a Jacob; if you understand what that stands for, it involves somewhat of a transformation itself. Jesus used an interesting illustration, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." (Matthew 13:31-32) God can do big things from hardly anything, and He can do wonderful things through tragedy and death. In other words, God's will is always the greatest, even though it might appear to be the weakest; His will is always the best, even though it might appear to be the worst; we can't see what God sees, we only see what we can see, and sometimes, what we see is just ugliness and death. Imagine what it must have been like for those that believed in Jesus, as they stood by and watched, seeing Him tortured and then crucified upon that cross; they had to be wondering where God was in all of that, and why He was allowing this to happen to someone that loved Him so much. Talk about "wrath", if there was ever a display of God's wrath, it was displayed in what God did for us unto Himself!!! I can't imagine it, yet it happened; who would have thought something so brutal and horrible could even be considered as lovely, or even have the word love associated with it at all; but it was all about God's love for us; He took our place; He allowed His flesh to be crucified so that we could reckon our's done! Talk about weak becoming strong, the Creator of the universe becomes flesh and blood, to have His flesh and blood destroyed, so that we might have life...
"For in one place the Scriptures say, What are mere mortals that you should think about them, or the son of man that you should care for him? Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them authority over all things. Now when is says "all things" it means nothing is left out. But we have not yet seen all things put under their authority. What we do see is Jesus, who was given a position "a little lower than the angels", and because He suffered death for us, He is now "crowned with glory and honor." Yes, by God's grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that He should make Jesus, through His suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation." (Hebrews 2:6-10)