Road to Indonesia---"So that He could be killed"

 Today in church we were given a quote by Tim Keller, "Jesus became human so that He could be killed."  That is a shocking statement to me, but completely true.  One cannot kill God.  The only way for God to be killed would be for Him to become human. That is what Christmas is all about, the beginng of the end.... of the beginning.  

The peacher also gave a fun illustration that those of us who have lived in tropical countries understand. He said when he was a little first grade boy in the dorms here in Sentani,  he once saw a troop of ants trying to move a cicuk (geiko) from the floor to the hole in the wall that lead to their home.  The little tiny ants kept manfully (personification) carrying the huge cicuk up a wall, over some sort of window sill, down the wall, across the floor, and into the hole in the wall. Now all they really had to do was stick to the floor and they would get to the hole in the wall.  The preacher as a boy, kept licking his finger and disrupting the path of the ants. Partly to see them scurry around to find the path left by the predecessors, but also to try to direct them to stay on the floor and take the easier route.  No matter how hard he tried to communicate to the ants the new path, they just did not get it.  That is why Jesus came at this Christmas season we are celebrating.  So He can communicate to us the way home.