EXPLOSIVE SAVIOR
When our family was young, we had a swimming pool in which I used to play a game with my boys. I would collect a handful of pennies and toss them into the deep end, and my boys would plunge in, both going after the lion’s share. It was great fun. Two… four… ten… fifteen – greed would keep them down for a long time. But there came a moment when they simply could not stay at the bottom, and I would see them arch upwards and shoot to the surface, bursting through the water into the air. So it was with Jesus, only a millionfold more! Think of the infinite compulsion of this inexorable law as Jesus humbled himself. He had been pushed down, down, down, and finally in an explosive moment the grave could no longer hold him. Kent R. Hughes, The Midnight Son, published by Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois, 1989, pg. 215
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