Redemption | Equivocation

The time in which we live has been called by many names. A few years ago, a philosopher suggested a name that never took hold, yet had the ring of truth to it. “We should call it the ‘Era of Yes and No,’” he wrote:

This is the Age of equivocation, the time of indecision. The answer we get to nearly every important question is both “Yes!” and “No!” The attitude toward nearly every significant proposal is both affirmative and negative. We live Jekyll-and-Hyde lives in a schizoid world.

But God said “Yes!” to man before man ever had a chance to say “No!” to Him. And no matter how often we reject Him, there is always an answering “Yes!” that offers our redemption. In the Lord Jesus there was not “Yes and No” but in Him is always “Yes!” In the temple, at twelve years of age, it was “Yes”: I must be about My Father ’s business. Tempted in the desert, it was…