Hebrews
2:7 “You made them a little lower
than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor and put everything under
their feet.”
We know that Jesus Christ is God's plan of Salvation. Yet, we
cannot truly comprehend what it meant for the infinite Creator God to become finite
man, even coming “in the likeness of sinful flesh”. Nevertheless, by faith we can, and
must, believe it, for “every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not
from God.”
It's true that the
Scriptures have given us a glimpse of the “emptying” that His incarnation (God,
in the flesh, with us) required—the setting aside of certain outward aspects of
His deity. He had been “so much better than the angels”, but He had to be “made
a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death and put to death in
the flesh”. The eternal Word was God, but it was necessary that “the Word was
made flesh” – John 1:14. The world was made by Him, but “the princes of this
world . . . crucified the Lord of glory”. Jesus Christ is the only way.
Scripture says that He
being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. That is,
He was not fearful of losing His deity and, therefore, did not have to cling to
His divine nature and attributes as He became man. Thus, He “made himself of no
reputation” (emptying Himself of the outward form of God) “and took upon him
the form of a servant”. Yet that was only the beginning. “For he hath made him
to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him”. He suffered hell for us, that we might enjoy heaven with Him.
Because
He was willing to be so humiliated, He will one day be crowned with glory and
honor. “God also hath highly exalted Him … that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord”. God incarnate; Immanuel (Hebrew: עִמָּנוּאֵל meaning, "God with
us"; Savior of the world - the reason for the season.
Merry
Christmas
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