When you were a kid, did you ever ask thought stumping questions? When I was growing up, my favorite was, "Can God create a rock so big that He couldn't lift it?" No matter how you answer it, you find something that God can't do. Either He can't create a rock that big, or He can't lift the rock. A trick question, a paradox.

But it got me thinking. Is there anything impossible for God?

So you can imagine my interest when I was browsing the White Estate website and happened upon a excerpt from a letter that Ellen White had written to her son, Edison:

But one thing is impossible with God--the power of eclipsing the greatness of His gift, in showing His love for fallen man that He has given in Jesus. (Nov. 18, 1895. Printed in Manuscript Releases, vol. 21, pp. 392, 393.)

Can God give an ultimate gift? A gift that can't be improved? Seems so. Jesus was God's best gift. A better one cannot be given.

Jesus put it this way:

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).

And Paul reminds us:

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

Consider the cross, a symbol of death, but also a symbol of love. The question is: How will you respond to God's love? There is no trick to this question. God is just waiting for your answer.

Jon Cicle (6/16/03)

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