God makes promises throughout the Scriptures that we, God’s Creation, will be protected, cherished and saved. But that isn’t happening now, and doesn’t seem to be true very often historically either. Is that because the words we read about God are meaningless? Or could it mean that God’s ways are so different than our ways that when God is acting in a decisve manner, we miss understand what is happening.

Jesus laments that the people of Jerusalem in his day won’t let protect them as a mother hen would protect her chicks from a fox; by putting his body between them and the predator, sacrificing himself to save them.

People who witnessed what was happening when Jesus went to his cross didn’t understand it then. And I’m not sure we fully understand it now. But it’s what God did then to save us today.

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