Time for Plan B

I haven't taken the time to write in awhile partly because I've been really busy. The first couple weeks of school are always hard because I don't really transition well, and I've done a really poor job at keep in touch, but this year it doesn't look like things are going to get any easier.

I've been thinking a lot about an interesting conversation that was held between many of the counselors at Summer's Best. It was about whether or not God intended for man to sin. Was the fall part of God's plan?

A lot of people focused in on free will and how we screwed up and the general consensus from most of the counselors was that God had a plan for if the fall didn't happen and a plan for if the fall did (which in case you didn't know, it did, and He knew it would). I have two huge beefs with this.

First I find it hard to believe that we can thwart God. Especially in something a big as the fall. Even if there are multiple plans I don't believe we have the power to stop any of an omnipotent God's plans.

Second and probably more important: I refuse to believe that Jesus was plan b. You could argue that neither plan was better than the other, but by default because one plan involved us screwing up the other would be better (at least in our limited understanding). But I just can not accept Jesus as the safety plan for if/ when we screw up, and looking at it from God's view, if both plans are equal I still refuse to believe that there could have been an alternative to Jesus especially one as good as Him.

What everyone was saying when they decided that God had two plans was that they were afraid of being wrong. They held their own understanding and their own opinion in such high regard that they couldn't commit to one side or the other for fear of being wrong. It's good to understand things, but apart from Jesus it's almost unnecessary. Most things like this when we discuss God's reasons or plans we will never know because if we knew we would be God, and we clearly aren't. It's fun to talk about it. I enjoy it, but we shouldn't be so concerned with being right because it doesn't really matter if your right. All that matters is God's truth no matter how little of an understanding we have of it.

Because of his grace and for his glory.