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Rev.Amy Baumgartner
The Reverend Amy Baumgartner is the Associate Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, 525 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS. Amy was ordained at First Presbyterian Church of Wichita, Kansas in June 2008. She earned a Masters of Divinity from Denver Seminary. Before attending seminary, Amy graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Landscape Architecture and worked several years for an architectural firm in Indianapolis, Indiana. You may contact Rev. Baumgartner by email AssociatePastor@firstpresbywichita.org, or by phone at (316) 263-0248.
Religion
2012-08-02 08:46:52
God's Plan
A- From the foundation of the world, God knew he would send Jesus Christ into the world at a specific time. We cannot know for certain why God waited to send Jesus; however, perhaps the delay is related to God’s desire for humans to realize they were in need of a Savior. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, the Messiah is foreshadowed, so it was God’s plan to wait for the perfect time (in God’s mind) to send his Son into the world (although the Son always existed with God and was not created to come into our world). So why did God wait so long? God is all-knowing and the Creator of all, including time. Because God created time, God exists outside of time as we know it. While it may be difficult for us to comprehend, Jesus came to earth at God’s pre-ordained time. And from a historical standpoint, Jesus’ coming to the earth during the Roman domination, under pax Romana (peace to much of civilized world under the Romans), with Roman roads and transportation systems, a common language of Greek, and a relative allowance for religious freedom allowed the message of Jesus Christ to spread throughout the world easier than would have been possible at other times in history. (It would be interesting to speculate about why God did not wait until our age to send Jesus Christ with the Internet, 24-hour news stations and technology, but God’s timing was perfect for God’s purposes). God chose God’s pre-ordained time for his will and purposes. It may seem like God waited a long time, but for God a year is as a day and a day as a year. A similar question could be asked: why has God waited so long to have Jesus Christ return? God is waiting for the full number of Gentiles to come to faith in God and for the Israelites to believe that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. In the meantime, we wait and pray, Come Lord Jesus.
 
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