The Thorn is a moving and memorable portrayal of God’s epic battle of love for us in the flesh.
Humanity was created for good and for a good life with God, enjoying the pleasures and beauty of who He is, His blessing on them, and His world. However, instead of enjoying Him and worshipping Him, humans (starting with the first, Adam and Eve) decided they wanted to attempt to be like God – and to rule their own destiny and pursue their own desires – whatever they wanted – rather than what He wanted.
In doing so, humanity went down a path of sin and suffering that caused much calamity, envy, bitterness, strife and perpetual suffering. There is nothing more despairing than when a person’s soul is in agony without hope, faith or love. If we reject God and His goodness, what hope is left? What purpose to our lives? What pleasure? What striving?
Apart from Him, His beauty, life and love, life becomes meaningless, empty, unsatisfying and painful.
But in His great love for us, God did not want to leave us there. He provided The Way, The Truth, and The Life in Jesus The Christ.
Jesus came and died on the cross in our place to pay the price for our sin/wrongdoing against God, was dead three days in the grave, and then rose again to resurrection life. He Himself is our peace. And through faith in Christ, God’s people are restored to Him – reconciled – and we can live a thriving and satisfying life in the peace and purposes of our identity as His resurrection people.
The Thorn tells the dramatic, riveting story of God’s love for us which is most completely and clearly portrayed in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
God loved the world so much that He sent His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. The Thorn is the story of God’s love in sending Jesus to die on the cross and triumph in resurrection life.
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