Fallout… I remember as a child being taught in the classroom about protecting ourselves from nuclear ‘fallout’.
It was a big deal. The threat of nuclear war and all that meant was hard for a child to understand…I only understood fear.
We had tornado drills and fire drills. I had a little real life knowledge about those. I had in my mind that ‘fallout’ would be something like falling hot cinders, or falling debris.
As an adult, I understand more fully what the threat is about, this ‘nuclear fallout’.
As an adult, I understand the threat of ‘fallout’ of many kinds. The nuclear kind being the least.
I’m talking about the residual consequences of an action. The residual consequences of a nuclear accident or explosion is what the news is focused on today…the ‘fallout’ and threats to life. Will it reach me?
The residual consequences of a fallen world seldom has any focus on it, especially from the media. But it does reach me. And you. And every human ever to exist.
There is ‘fallout’ from the garden, and it’s still falling, and it’s still deadly.
What can we do to protect ourselves? Absolutely nothing. We need outside intervention.
And so He came. And He provides a way.
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.
Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; Anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it.
And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God.
Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure.
But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is." (John 3:16-21 The Message)
“For God loved the world SO much….that He gave His only Son….so that whoever would believe in HIM shall not perish…” (John 3:16NIV)
