Don't Make Me Come Down There!!

I remember a time when i was a kid that my sisters, brother and i were clowning around. Dad was upstairs and had told us to settle down before someone gets hurt or something gets broken... but we kept at it. Dad was nearing the end of his patience and stood at the top of stairs yelling at us. We knew that if he came down stairs, we were going to get a whoopin' - or worse!

Sometimes i wonder what some people think of God. Do they think he stands at the top of the stairs threatening us? "Don't make me come down there!" What do they think he'd do if he made that threat and followed through on it.

In fact, God DID "come down." If that was a threat, he carried it out... but not at all like anybody thought he would. The consequences to what we've done wrong, to all our "clowning around" (in the worst sense of that phrase), are very real. God said, "Hey, if you don't straighten, i'm coming down there. THEN you'll see that those consequences are for real." We didn't "straighten up." And God made good on his promise. He came down showed us the consequences of our foolish, selfish behavior and heart. The full consequences of all our sin fell upon Him... on the cross.