Son of the Living God

Matthew 16:16“And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

A devotional on this Bible verse states that this ringing affirmation of faith came from Peter as spokesman but undoubtedly was shared by all the disciples, since Jesus had asked the question “Whom do you say that I am?” of them all. Actually, they had probably all been disciples of John the Baptist, who had directed them to Jesus.

The Apostle John had said in John 1:18, that Jesus was indeed “the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. In fact, it is essential that one must believe it to be saved. Jesus did say in John 3:18, “But he that does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”.

Yet He seems to want us to know Him especially as the Son of man, perhaps so that we will never forget that He, though fully God, is also fully man just like us; God incarnate. And as man, He was “in all ways tested like as we are, yet without sin” so He can “be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” and we now can “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need”.

The Apostle John was enabled to see Christ once again, long after His return to heaven. Although He was now in His resurrection body. In Revelation 1:13, John still saw Him as “one like unto the Son of man”. Although He is indeed the Son of the living God, He is also our “man in the glory”, God with us! 

Blessings in Christ, the Son of the living God.