The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"No Peer"
Purposed to die for humanity before humanity existed.
Conceived as a baby in the womb of a woman.
The eternal Word made temporal flesh.
Born in obscurity and laid in a manger.
Subject unto human parents, despite having been the Creator of the race from which they descended, and who would one day die for their sins.
Participated in a sinner's baptism.
Subject to temptation in all points in His humanity.
Ministered without credentials.
Fellowshipped with sinners.
Rejected by His own people and nation.
Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
Unjustly accused, tried, and convicted.
Nailed to a cross with guilty thieves as His final earthly companions.
Died as a man.
Laid in a tomb provided by another.
Resurrected in the most glorious of miracles, but witnessed in the moment of the event by no human eyes.
Seen after His resurrection by hundreds, but unseen by the vast majority of the human populace at the time.
Trusted, obeyed, and communicated by His devotees for millennia, but unseen, unheard, and untouched as they love and embrace Him not by sight, but by faith.
(Revelation 13:8; Isaiah 7:14; John 1:14; Luke 2:7; 2:51; 1:47; Matthew 3:13; 4:1; Hebrews 4:15; Mark 6:3; 2:16; John 1:11; Hebrews 4:15; Matthew 26:59; Mark 15:27; 8:31; Matthew 27:59-60; Acts 13:30; I Corinthians 15:6; II Corinthians 5:7)
This is the Lord Jesus Christ, glorious, majestic, fearful, infinite, eternal, and wondrous beyond all imagining as God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity. But humble beyond all fathoming in His service to God the Father, humanity, and all creation as the son of man. In both Heaven and earth, there is no one like Him in His singular office and experience as the God who became man, and the man who remains God. We do not fully understand Him - "great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh." The primary quest of our hearts in this life and forevermore nevertheless leads us to better understand Him - "grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ" (I Timothy 3:16; II Peter 3:18). Never will the synthesis of His glory and humility be fully discovered, and long into eternity, we will stand before the shoreless ocean of Christ in glad thanksgiving for what we have found, but in full awareness that the quest of our hearts has just begun.
The Apostle Paul's doxology penned to the believers of Philippi closes our consideration. Or perhaps we might suggest it furthers a consideration that will never end of the united glory and humility known in the One who has no peer in God's eternal purpose, or in our hearts…
"Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
(Philippians 2:8-11)
Weekly Memory Verse
And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Him and his disciples.
(Matthew 9:10)
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