Amazing love

Think of a scientist, staring through his microscope's eyepiece at a microbe population gone berserk and threatening the world. He longs for a way to remove his labcoat, shrink down to micron size, and enter that microbe world with the genetic material needed to correct it.

In the context of our own analogy, imagine God, after looking with great sadness on the virus of evil that has infected His creation, casting aside His own prerogatives to take on the shell of a victim cell of that abhorrent virus in order to vaccinate humanity against death and destruction that are sure to follow. An analogy points to truth weakly; nothing could have more force than the simple assertion, "He became sin for us."

This is just something interesting I came across when reading In His Image by Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand. I can still hardly grasp and fathom the love that God had when He sent His only Son Jesus to die on the Cross for us. It is simply amazing =]