God’s Endgame

‘Preacher’s Point’ By Pastor Tim Johnson

We were visiting friends years ago, and our friends had a small child. The boy was at that stage of life where he would walk along furniture, but he would still crawl across the open floor. All the adults were sitting in the living room when here he came, crawling in from the kitchen dragging a huge pot. The pot was as big as he was, and everyone gave a laugh, but he seemed determined to bring it into the same room as us. Mom handled the situation by removing the pot, but while doing so, she said to the child, “What are you trying to accomplish?”

After all this time, I remember that event because of her question. She was not expecting an answer, but it made me think about how most people will do things for a purpose, in other words, there is an end cause behind our actions.

However, have you ever thought of asking God, “What are you trying to accomplish?”

God is, well, God. He created everything and keeps the universe together (Colossians 1:1617). God could have sat on His throne in heaven and watched what would happen in this universe He made, but he did not.

Why? What is He trying to accomplish?

God did not leave us in the dark about what He is trying to do. Matthew 18:11, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.” The reason, God’s endgame, in why He came to this earth is “to save that which was lost.”

When someone has something they want to accomplish, whatever he or she does is an attempt to reach the desired goal.

If God were to accomplish His desired goal by having us be good people or by us not committing certain sins; then why did He come? Why did He die on the cross? He could have given us a list of sins to avoid, or tell us He was going to weigh our good deeds in comparison with our evil deeds and see how we measure up – but He did not do that – He came, He died, He rose again.

God took all the steps necessary to arrive at His end game – our salvation.

However, similar to asking someone’s hand in marriage. The proposal must be accepted, or all the work and effort of the one doing the asking goes for naught.

John 1:12, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”

Preacher Johnson is Pastor of Countryside Baptist Church in Parke County Indiana.