This Is Just Weird

In Genesis Abraham has a vision - Sort of. In the account, God is making a covenant with Abraham. God is telling Abe how things are going to work. He has Abraham take some animals and according to the custom of the day, He has Abraham do some really gory stuff, at least by 21^st century standards. Apparently, back in the day, when two parties were making a peace agreement they would take an animal, cut it down the middle from front to tail, separate the two halves and then both parties would walk down the middle of the bloody mess and in so doing say, “If I break our peace agreement then let what happened to this animal happen to me.”

After Abraham has killed and split the animals, he falls into a deep trance and his vision begins. In this vision however, Abraham is not the one who is asked to walk the walk. Instead, in a true act of pure grace that plays out right until the last chapter of Revelation, Creator God, alone, moves between the animals. God, in an act of pure grace says that even though He knows that Abraham and all the rest of us will repeatedly break the covenant with God, He will keep His end of the bargain.

In fact, God can’t imagine doing anything but keep His Word. God will bless Abraham. He will secure Abraham's children. He will make Abraham a great nation so that all the nations of the earth will be blessed through his race via Jesus.

In fact this plan of peace and reconciliation was already in place before the universe was brought into existence. Knowing that we would choose to rebel against Him, knowing that we would break our relationship with Him, and knowing the horrific consequences of that broken relationship, our Creator put in place a plan of restoration and redemption. He made the first move then and continues to do so down through history for every person who has been called by h/her Creator to come and find shelter from the storm.

Ya, the vision is weird to our sensibilities, but think of the grace, the love, the mercy.

What kind of person would reject this offer of salvation?