TWO THINGS GOD HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE HIS INCARNATION
Think about Christmas from the heavenly prospective. Elohim, the Great Creator God—Creator of all things………….the One Who must humble Himself to look at Heaven, to bend down to look at the great expanse of the Universe……the Universe that He created with the Word of His Mouth, but which we will never be able to comprehend. That Universe is but a speck to Him!!!!
Yet, for that unexplainable, eternal God, there were two experiences that He never had. Two feelings that we feel every day, in our puny created humanity, but the Great Elohim, has never felt.
They are……….vulnerability (weakness) and sin.
He knew of them, of course, but He never experienced them.
But mankind was in a bad state—-corruption, death, decay, deception, rebellion, and sin had blanketed every heart of every living thing, and the tragic end was inevitable. “There is none good—no, not one.”
The Son, the Word, the relational member of the Trinity, volunteered to solve our problem. It wasn’t God’s problem. He could just create another world, other beings. But He loves US, and wanted His Bride with Him.
So the Son did more than humble Himself to view activities of heaven. He did more than to bend down to see His creation of the Universe. He took off His robe of glory, stepped off the threshold of eternity, and squeezed Himself into the realm of Time, with His failing, decaying creation. This is humility beyond our comprehension. This is sacrifice beyond the grasp of our reasoning. And that was just to become a baby in the womb. His sufferings and rejection haven’t even began yet.
But let’s look at that baby first. He made everything in the world and far beyond, yet, He was developing from two cells———one human, and one divine——–cell by cell——organ by organ—–ability by ability——just like any baby of His own creation. There was nothing special about the pregnancy, apart from the flesh-shrouded deity of the child.
He was totally dependent upon Mary’s blood flow to keep Him alive. He was vulnerable. He was now confined in very tight quarters, when formerly He lived in expanses with no end. He listened for the sound of his mother and father, and found Himself being comforted by the sound. They were His comfort. The Almighty, Who offers comfort to all of His Creation, needed comfort in His voluntary weakness.
The Almighty, all-powerful God, was under-developed. He needed to grow in order to breathe the air that He created. He was weak, and dependent upon His creatures. He had never experienced this before. He felt what it feels like to be comforted, and what it’s like to grow, and, somehow, it was exactly that—–comforting……..even for Him.
After birth, the comforting changed, but yet it was the same. He felt more vulnerable, however, because of the knowledge that though He could move, He was still totally dependent on that same comforting voice that He heard in the womb. Now He could feel her arms holding Him, caressing Him, along with Joseph’s strong arms. Creation stronger than the Creator! Creatures protecting the Creator! This has never before been seen!!!!
His creatures, that He guided so lovingly through their lives, ….this man and woman…….were changing His diapers, keeping Him warm, feeding Him when He was hungry………carrying Him wherever THEY saw fit.
This, indeed was an experience of eternal proportions!!!!! But, as strange as weakness and vulnerability were to Him, Sin will be so much more!
Eternal perfection—–We can’t even comprehend the expanse of that perfection. As He has never experienced imperfection. How can we, having lived our entire lives as rebelling creatures………….as evil creatures…………comprehend perfection. We’ve never seen it, felt it, heard it, or known it in any way. We don’t discuss it, study it, or even think about it. But now, Perfection has entered our world as one of us.
Not only that, but this Perfection, and True Goodness, will soon become all the accumulated sin of all the history of this corrupt and “walking dead” society!!!!! HOW CAN THIS BE?
“TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME”……..But we must try to discern how the Creator and God of all things could humble Himself THIS FAR DOWN………….to the lowest of the low of this satan-swiped and sin-soaked world, and be hated by the “good” as well as the most evil of mankind alike!!!!!
He took our sin, and we hated Him for it! I say “we” because we were all there. We were in the crowd, crying “crucify Him.” We had to be. We had to be on the cross with Him, or our sins are not forgiven. He took the sins of every person who ever lived, from Adam on through to the end, and they were ALL put inside the only One to never experience sin………….the Only one who couldn’t even LOOK UPON SIN!!!! It was INSIDE HIM!!!!! We shudder, we cry, we weaken, we moan and shake our heads, but one thing we don’t do is UNDERSTAND. We cannot. We’re pathetic, weak, limited, and worst of all—-completely rebellious to Him. Even now, after we’re saved, we have our fleshly desires. We won’t know what sinlessness is until we die or are raptured.
But THEN! OH! WE WILL UNDERSTAND!!!!
Will YOU understand? Have you made Him your personal Savior and Lord? Do you believe, or want to believe, that He did this for YOU?
If you want to believe, but you just can’t be sure…….just tell Him so. Ask Him to make it real to you, ask Him to draw you to the Father. It is only through Jesus that anyone can come to the Father.
Tell Him you’re sorry for your sins, and ask for His forgiveness because of the sacrifice of Jesus, who satisfied the Justice of the Father, so that we don’t have to take our own punishment. He took it for us, and gave us the Certificate of Freedom signed by Him, ….that’s why He said on the cross, “It is finished”….it was a prison term, meaning that the price has been paid and the prisoner is free. You can be free, and live with Him in heaven and on the new, perfect earth forever.
It’s just one decision, one prayer away.
Then start reading His Word, the Bible, and asking true believers your questions. He’ll guide you further as you Look for Him in honesty.