The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Great Is the Mystery"
What would the experience of weakness involve for the infinitely almighty God who was "made flesh and dwelt among us?" (John 1:14).
"Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well" (John 4:6).
"For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God" (II Corinthians 13:4).
We cannot possibly know, nor will we ever understand what the Lord Jesus experienced in the incarnation. We have no frame of reference for such condescension. From Heavenly glory to earthly limitation transcends all human comprehension, as the Apostle Paul declared, "Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh" (I Timothy 3:16).
Interestingly, our inability to understand provides a blessed and vital opportunity. We can choose to be increasingly awed and amazed by our Lord's willingness to humble Himself, first by living as a human being - "wearied with His journey" - and then by dying as as a human being - "crucified through weakness." We require awareness of realities that stop us in our tracks, and then lead us to our knees and faces. Indeed, we need to know that we cannot know. Call it wonder, or worship, or wisdom, no light more illuminates our hearts than the realization that we can and must go very far into the knowledge of our God. "With all thy getting, get understanding" (Proverbs 4:7). However, we can only go so far before it becomes clear that, by definition, infinity and eternity will forever stretch before as an ocean whose shore we will never reach. "His greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3).
How glorious our Lord must be that His entering into weakness leads us to enter into the eternity of His wonder. How glorious also that this day offers opportunity to better know that which we can never fully know. How could the Almighty live and die in weakness? That we will never come close to finding a complete answer tells us much as it leads us to appreciate and love Him all the more. No brighter light can shine upon or within us.
"The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."
(Psalm 60:19)
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence."
(I Corinthians 1:27-29)
Weekly Memory Verse
For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
(II Corinthians 13:4)
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