Did you hear about the new vacation package that the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle is promoting this fall? It’s called “Snuggle Up and Shop,” where you pay $255 a night to shop online from your hotel room.
So, let’s get this straight—you leave the comfort of your own home, pay hundreds of dollars for airline tickets to Seattle, pay $255 a night…so you can do something there that most of us can do from our own homes?!?
Now, in all fairness, for every night that you stay, you get a $50 Amazon gift card and a $50 In-Room dining credit (and, of course, free wi-fi Internet)…so the idea is that you get all the fun of taking a shopping vacation…without having to actually leave your hotel room to shop.
And surprisingly, at least it’s surprising to me, the hotel says that people are taking advantage of this offer! People are spending (potentially) thousands of dollars just to shop online from a hotel room!
That doesn’t make sense to me on so many levels. And while I know I’m talking about apples and oranges here and I hesitate to use that story to illustrate my point here today, that God would become a man in order to save us from ourselves and our sin makes no sense to the unbelieving heart.
And I’ll give you one big reason why—God is self-sufficient. In other words, we don’t add anything to God…His fullness is independent of us. So His willingness to create us in His own image…and to love us despite our flaws and failures… and to pursue us in order to redeem us…is hard for us to understand.
So why did He do it? The short answer to that question is “for His pleasure.” Revelation 4:11 and Colossians 1:16 both speak to creation existing for God's glory and pleasure. God is a sovereign Being, so He can do whatever He wants (like the Incarnation). God is a relational Being, so it is “for His pleasure” that He created us for fellowship. God is a merciful Being, so it gives Him pleasure to restore His image in us that has been marred by sin.
We might not understand it, but God's plan is perfect...always!
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