FROM MY RECENT
PONDERINGS ABOUT THE END AND THE BEGINNING
A friend posed the following question a little while ago that started me thinking.
The question, “Why did Jesus choose
Peter?” My immediate reaction was, ‘Is that
is the right question? Is there a better question?’ I’ll reveal this in a bit. These
are some of my thoughts that followed.
Let me take you a journey. Consider:
no one builds or creates anything without a purpose, goal, or the desired result
in mind. Take an architect who has the
task to build a house. First, he collects ideas and requirements. Then he
starts considering alternatives, different styles and many options. After much thinking and weighing choices, the
architect starts sketching what the house will look like on all sides. The next
part of the process is to start laying out the floor plans, the arrangement of
different living spaces. As floor plans are adjusted, the exterior is updated.
Next the framing, plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning are added.
Pages and pages of plans are created. The final page, by necessity, is the
foundation plan. The foundation cannot
be completed until it is fully determined what it will have to support. How big
is the house? How much does it weigh? Were do the utilities enter and exit the
house? Where is the chimney(s)? You can not
complete the foundation drawing until all these, and other questions are
answered.
When the foundation plan is
finished, the architect can sign the drawings because its finished, and when it
is finished, the building can start. It starts where it ended, by building the
foundation as the architect designed it. The foundation is the first thing
built, but the last thing designed. The principle is simply what the word says,
“.. He knew the end from the beginning ..” Isaiah 46:10.
God had a plan for a Holy City
coming out of heaven as described at the end of the Book of Revelation (Rev
21:12). His plan includes a building. So, like the architect, that He is God
started to create a plan going over option after option, plan after plan. He considered
lots of alternatives, all the choices when He would give input check on the
progress. He considered which people of what character would be born when. When He was completely satisfied, He would begin
the process to build the City using the plans He signed by declaring, “Let
there be Light!”
Like the word says, “ .. before the
foundations of the earth I knew you (Eph 4).”
So that is my answer to the better
question, “When did Jesus choose Peter?” Before the foundation of the earth
Jesus chose what was the nature and character of Peter. On the Sea of Galilee Jesus
was on is way to get Peter. Peter did
not know His creator was coming to get Him to complete the reason Peter was
created, but Jesus knew.
Questions remain, “Why did Peter
choose Jesus?” Yet the better questions are, “Why did I choose Jesus?” What was
God’s plan for my future when He declared, Let there be Fred, Victoria, John,
Lee, …..
The Bible, the Plan has the answers
to our questions.
