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Dear friends:
God lovingly works in many mysterious ways to communicate His
great message of love and forgiveness to people of all nations,
tribes, languages and cultures, and in ways they can best
understand.
There was a man from India who was a devout member of a Hindu
sect and who had a profound sense of reverence for life. He
would not kill an ant, a cow, or even a cobra, because to him,
due to his belief in reincarnation, he might be killing some
past relative.
During his visit to America, he had been confronted with the
claims of Christ, yet he could not grasp the biblical truth that
God actually visited this planet in the flesh in the person of
Jesus Christ. He could not comprehend how the Great Creator God
of the Universe could become a man, or why.
One day as he was walking in the field meditating upon this new
truth about Jesus the Christ being God, he was wondering how
this could possibly be. He ran across a large anthill with
thousands of little ants scurrying around in their busy like
manner. He was standing there observing with wonder the activity
of these ants, and what amazing creatures they are, when
suddenly, he heard a tremendous and threatening noise. It was
the noise of a large tractor plowing the fields.
As he looked up he discovered that the tractor would soon be
plowing through that ant hill and thousands of ants would
probably be killed and their home destroyed. Gripped with the
same concern you and I would feel for hundreds of people trapped
in a burning building, he became frantic. He wanted to warn them
of their impending destruction.
He thought to himself, "How can I warn them?
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If I could write in the sand,
they wouldn't be able to read it.
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If I shouted to them, they
wouldn't understand me.
The only possible way I could
communicate with them would be by becoming an ant, if I had that
ability."
Then suddenly he had a revelation from the Spirit of God. He saw
why God, the Creator of the universe, chose to become one of us
by becoming a man, in the Person of the God-man, Jesus of
Nazareth.
Through his experience with the ant hill, the light suddenly
came on in the heart of that Hindu man, and now he understood
the words of Paul:
"Though he was
God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. He made
himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and
appeared in human form"
(Php.2:6-7, NLT).
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