Revelation? God is wondrous.

I was thinking a strange thought about God (big G), gods (little g) and humans who want to feel the power and control of a god.   I came to this wonderous conclusion about gods and control... And then I came to this crazy conclusion about Jesus and God.  

Little g, gods from mythology have this grand control.  This level of control that humans want and wish to have and bear.  The control over the elements, the control over animals and the ultimate control over life.  To bear the power of a god is to hold life over death and to that end have the ultimate choice.  To bear the power of a god is to bear the control of choice.  

Humans cannot control the system of life that is the realm of God.  He made this earth in 5 days with the last to spring a creation unlike all the others.  A creation in His likeness... A human.  And with this creation he bore a god like quality... Free Will.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.  The one thing we all seek is to somehow CONTROL our lives and its outcome. And the glorious gift of free will is the greatest loss of any god.  Big g God is the greatest god... He relinquished control and allowed us to choose to leave the sanction of heaven.  God gave the one thing we wish we could have... God gave us the freedom of will and freedom of choice.  God let his creation free to choose a life away from Him.  Then He sacrificed again.  He chose to send Jesus to burden Himself in the choices of a human... God relinquished control yet again.  His only son... And Jesus' greatest choice was to suffer and to free us of our sins.  

So I thought... How wonderous is God?  For God could have held us in his control but never shown is the love of a father.  As such we would never have seen the glory of God.  

God who reigns over all, chose humans to live a life of free will, relinquishing his imposition and control, allowing for you to choose against His will.  

How many humans could say the same? We hold so dearly to control as if we really have it.  We don't have control.  We have choice.  

God loves his creation so much that he gave us the choice to stay or to leave Him.  God sent Jesus to save us from our sins, regardless of our choice to look away.  

God is wonderful. 

We feel pain because of original sin.  We have love waiting to be chosen but we wait for control.  

God released his full control so to allow us to choose life, not to control life.