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You could argue -- and I think the New Testament does this -- that Jesus came to give us our awe back again. I love the one way that that's captured in 2 Corinthians 5:15, particularly. It says that Jesus came so that those who live would no longer live for themselves. That's one of those statements that Paul makes that has such an incredible economy of words, but covers this huge topic because what the Bible argues in a lot of places is that awe of God is quickly replaced with awe of self.
Rescued From the Epicenter of My Idolatry
If God's not in His rightful place, guess who I'll insert in that place. And so, Jesus came again, to rescue me from my own idolatry and the epicenter of my idolatry, the epicenter of my idol worship of creation is my idol worship of me. And so, God harnessed the forces of nature and controlled the events of human history so that at a certain point in time, Jesus would come not only reveal the glory of God, but live the life that we couldn't live, die the death that we should have died, rise again, conquering sin and death, so that He could provide the one rescue that we need -- the rescue for ourselves, so our idle Hearts could come to worship Him and in worshiping Him, be rescued from all the sad craziness of trying to put ourselves at the center.
