The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Truly Human"
The Lord Jesus Christ is the only perfectly human being who has ever lived.
"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased… I honor My Father… I do always those things that please Him… " (Matthew 3:17; John 8:49; 29).
All others have failed to achieve true humanity, as defined by God. Sin entered the human race through Adam, whose progeny "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 5:12). Even those who most know, trust, love, and obey the Lord do not fully attain to what it means to be human during their earthly lifetime. Certainly, all born of Adam are human in substance. However, all are subhuman in the reason for our existence. This includes those born again through faith in the Lord Jesus, who have entered into His spiritual race of the redeemed. We are spiritually united to Christ and as a matter of relationship and fellowship we are "in the spirit and not in the flesh" (Romans 8:9). However, we still live in fleshly souls and bodies inherited from Adam. Therein, a "law of sin" still remains, which means that we will not in this lifetime ascend to the sublime summit of humanity for which we were created (Romans 7:22-25).
The Lord Jesus alone perfectly lived for the pleasure, honor, and will of His Father, the reason for which He made humanity and is working to redeem us. Christ presently and forever dwells as the prototypical human being - "the man Christ Jesus" - without relinquishing His divinity (I Timothy 2:5). All who have believed will one day "be like Him," a glory of grace that includes our being fully human, as is our Lord (I John 3:2). Our "fearfully and wonderfully made" humanity, indwelt by the Holy Spirit and fully delivered from the presence and environment of sin, will become something wondrous beyond all imagining (Psalm 139:14). Indeed, if ever we marvel at human accomplishment throughout history, as made possible by the light of God in the world, we do well to realize that we have seen nothing as we shall see in the everlasting forever that awaits us. That God became human, and will forever remain human, tells us that His purpose for our existence is glorious beyond all imagining. What will we do as human beings in Christ and through Christ forevermore? Most of all, of course, we will please, honor, and obey our Heavenly Father in all things. We will love Him. This defines the primary reason for our existence, and the very essence and meaning of what it is to be truly human. However, innumerable and indescribably wondrous expressions of such "hope of glory" will manifest in "wonders without number" as we forever "live and move and have our being" as human beings inhabited by the living God (Colossians 1:27; Job 9:10). "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Acts 17:28; Matthew 13:43).
We cannot praise the Lord Jesus enough for His "from everlasting" deity as God the Son. Nor can we praise Him enough for His "to everlasting" humanity as a truly and fully human being. Moreover, we cannot give enough thanks for His birthing us into the new creation of which He became a part. Yes, the only fully human being who has yet lived incessantly works to make a vast host like Himself. He could do nothing better for us, a glory of grace that will never be fully exhausted as we eternally discover the gift of what it means to be truly human.
"In my flesh shall I see God."
(Job 19:26)
Weekly Memory Verse
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
(Hebrews 4:15)
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