God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself even
though all things seem to be pleased to remain hostile to God’s desire. That
hostility did all it could do to destroy God’s pleasure in the agony and
abandonment of the cross. One would think that after being rejected God would
be pleased to send the whole lot of us to hell but strangely God finds “no
delight in the death of sinners” even if some who claim to speak for God do.
That is not to say we are puppets of God’s desire only that God’s will be done
might mean that what pleases God might finally overcome the human will to
please self and in the same way a moth cannot finally resist the light on a
dark night we will be drawn into a love that refuses to be denied. And the
surprise of it all is that when God’s pleasure has its way with us we become
more pleased to be reconciled to others and in doing so double God’s
pleasure.
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