Jesus was Willing
Jesus
was Willing
“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:8)
Jesus
walked this land in his time just as we do in ours. He was special.
Half man and all God, He came to reunite us to Himself. The only
begotten Son of God sacrificed Himself for all humanity to save them
from the righteous judgment sure to come.
Jesus
found Himself
“in fashion as a man,”
which therefore made it possible for Him to humble Himself and to
become obedient to the death that had been ordained for Him prior to
the very foundation of the world. This
did not lessen the price He paid for our sins.
(1 Peter 1:20).
Jesus
“increased
in wisdom”
(Luke 2:52) as He grew in “stature.” Basically, because He
“became” human, He experienced the normal increase in awareness
and experience that all of us do. How
else could he, The Lord, truly know us.
The
difference was, obviously, that He “humbled”
Himself, even though He “was
in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin”
(Hebrews 4:15). Christ’s sinless behavior could have easily
“exalted” Him.Satan
tried to use this method when he tempted Him in the wilderness. Jesus
resisted all of Satan’s temptations and never sinned.
Isaiah
prophetically records the mindset of the Lord many years before He
actually entered Jerusalem: “I
set my face like a flint”
(Isaiah 50:7). Later, Jesus told His disciples, “I
have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it
be accomplished!”
(Luke 12:50).
Finally,
the obedience of our Lord Jesus, understood fully and deeply at
Gethsemane, was completely
accomplished,
“even the death of the cross.”
May our hearts never forget or tire of these great truths. Know
God, know peace.
Amen
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