...Jesus.. a Marketing Project??????

remember many years ago my brother saying something like he could relate better to the God of the Jews, the Old Testament.. in his opinion Jesus was nothing but a good marketing project the church was using...
told him he should maybe read the Old Testament, and see what God did to the people of Israel when they disobeyed Him, and how thankful I was that Jesus paid for my sins, past, present and future...


this is what I have been reading..

Lamentations 3:37-59

Who can speak and have it happen

    if the Lord has not decreed it?

 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High

    that both calamities and good things come?

 Why should the living complain

    when punished for their sins?

 Let us examine our ways and test them,

    and let us return to the Lord.

 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands

    to God in heaven, and say:

 “We have sinned and rebelled

    and you have not forgiven.

 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us;

    you have slain without pity.

 You have covered yourself with a cloud

    so that no prayer can get through.

 You have made us scum and refuse

    among the nations.

 “All our enemies have opened their mouths

    wide against us.

 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,

    ruin and destruction.”

 Streams of tears flow from my eyes

    because my people are destroyed.

 My eyes will flow unceasingly,

    without relief,

 until the Lord looks down

    from heaven and sees.

 What I see brings grief to my soul

    because of all the women of my city.

 Those who were my enemies without cause

    hunted me like a bird.

 They tried to end my life in a pit

    and threw stones at me;

 the waters closed over my head,

    and I thought I was about to perish.

 I called on your name, Lord,

    from the depths of the pit.

 You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears

    to my cry for relief.”

 You came near when I called you,

    and you said, “Do not fear.”

 You, Lord, took up my case;

    you redeemed my life.

 Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me.

    Uphold my cause!

Thankful that the Lord, my Jesus, took all the grief and punishment for my sins.. that all it takes for me to be right with Him is to confess and repent.. His compassion and unfailing love are mine every morning... forgive me Lord for doubting you and not trusting you...

Verse 22-26 of Lamentations 3 say this:

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,

    for his compassions never fail.

 They are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;

    therefore I will wait for him.”

 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,

    to the one who seeks him;

 it is good to wait quietly

    for the salvation of the Lord.

Thankful that God Almighty's plan included Jesus, included sacrificing Him as the perfect lamb, to pay for my sins once and for all.. Marketing Project? Divine Grace, Redemption and Reconciliation is more like it I would say...     #SoliDeoGloria