REFLECTIONS
ON THE WORD

An excerpt from

God Is!

By Mark R. Littleton
Starburst Publishers, $14.95

ISBN 0914984926

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Review by Jacquelyn Phillips

People on earth were angry. They said God didn't understand. They said He didn't know what it was like to be oppressed, to be beaten, to be rejected, to be hated.

They said He had no right to judge them, or ask that they obey and trust Him.

God decided to make a deal.

"I will come among you and be one of you," He told them. "I will become a man."

"But you will come as a king," they complained. "Few of us are kings and most are cruel."

"No," God answered, "I will come as a pauper, the son of a laborer. I will work painstakingly every day for my bread and water."

"Perhaps," the people said, "but you will be a citizen, respected and protected."

"No," God told them, "I will be an outcast. Some will spit upon Me. Some will hate Me."

"But you will come as a healthy, happy person with a great family, who has nothing but good all his days."

"No," God replied, "I will remain unmarried. I will have no children, no legacy, no one to call me Papa, no son to be proud of, no daughter to praise. I will know little more than sorrow all my days."

Some of the people were intrigued now, but they said, "Then you will live long and well and never know great physical pain."

God answered, "No, I will die a criminal's death, at a young age."

There was a long silence.

"Then," the people finally said, astonished, "you will truly have been one of us and we can gladly trust you. But when will you do this?"

God said, "I already have," and pointed to His Son.