“But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slaves), in that He became like men and was born a human being, and after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross! Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name,…” Phil 2:7-9 AMP
“For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].” 2Cor 5:21 AMP
He is Awesome!
In my previous post, Day 148, I touched on a subject that was revelatory for me and the Lord has continued to expand that topic. I discussed how, while God doesn’t change, we have the ability to move and impact God. Specifically I shared in reference to “Jesus wept” from John 11, that “this is about the event having an impact on Him personally, and it moving Him in His emotions, yet Him not allowing it to deter Him from the greater work that the Father wanted to manifest of Jesus being the Resurrection and the Life.”
The event I was referring to, was both Mary and Martha telling the Lord that if He had been there, their brother Lazarus would not have died.
In that moment, I believe Jesus could see the very limit of their faith and it’s force was able to wound Him… and He felt it just as we would have. But, He didn’t allow the force of that impact to divert Him from the greater goal – why He was actually sent by the Father. That goal was to do the Father’s will…. completely. In this case, demonstrate that He is the resurrection and the Life. But to do that required the suffering of Lazarus’ death.
So moving on from that baseline of Day 148, I want to take that notion, that Jesus is moved by us… He can hear our thoughts, knows our heart, and is moved by our needs and wants and cries…And yet, because He is 100% God and 100% man, He is going to fulfill God’s call, God’s will, and He will do it according to God’s perfect will in thought, purpose, and deed. This is because He is perfectly denying and laying down His own self as a man.
Ultimately, I believe Jesus came and did this, so that you and I could also deny ourselves, lay down our own lives, and instead walk out the spirit and not the flesh.
Now, the focus of the continued revelation is aimed at Psalm 22. This Psalm is a Messianic Psalm, one that King Davis penned but basically is where David is crying out a prophetic word that emulates Jesus’ experience on the cross (which was still yet to come).
Read through Psalm 22:1-31 slowly. Let the words and expression speak to you. From beginning to its end, it expresses the fulness of Jesus’ abandonment by the Father, His desolation, and an accounting of the depths of His progression through the misery of the crucifixtion. There is no denying His experience as being most horrific, and one which He had to go through as a man. 100% man to be exact. It was because of this, that He was qualified to be identified with us…
But what you may not initially grasp is that, the experience of His passion embodied every facet of every aspect of the suffering of mankind. Not one stream of what you and I suffer here on earth was left out of His suffering. And He was moved by it. He felt it all to the core of His being. But He refused to allow it to divert Him from the purpose for which He came.
He came to do the will of the Father, and then to purchase freedom and deliverance for you and I who were captive to sin, and darkness, and evil.
From Psalm 22:6 “But I am a worm, and no man; I am the scorn of men, and despised by the people.”
Here we may be tempted to read this only as from King David’s lips and account, but I want to share with you what the Blue Letter Bible’s interlinear rendering is for the word “worm” and it’s deepest meaning:
Worm, scarlet stuff, crimson
-worm- the female ‘coccus ilicis’
-scarlet stuff, crimson, scarlet
— the dye made from the dried body of the female of the worm “coccus ilicis”
Expansion: (Henry Morris. Biblical Basis for Modern Science, Baker House, 1985, p. 73)
“When the female of the scarlet worm species was ready to give birth to her young, she would attach her body to the trunk of a tree, fixing herself so firmly and permanently that she would never leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body were thus protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. What a picture this gives of Christ, dying on the tree, shedding His precious blood that He might “bring many sons unto glory” (Heb 2:10). He died for us that we might live through Him!”
Friends, perhaps we are familiar with reading and studying the cross, and Jesus’ identification with us. We have maybe even studied Isaiah 53 and the things Jesus suffered. And yet, somehow, because He is also 100% God, we think His physical and emotional suffering was somehow less than ours… But I tell you, it was more, because He did carry the sins and suffering of the world. As the Son of Man He identified completely with us. He took all the suffering that was required freely upon Himself, that you and I could be free from it.
Not only that, but He felt and experienced every bit of it, to the deepest core of His being, and yet, He chose not to let that suffering move Him away from any and every purpose of the perfect will of the Father. He went though it all, that you and I would follow Him and live through Him!!!
The point::: You move Him! Your hurt moves Him. He is aware of it all… (in fact He has carried it all)so come to Him and enter into the healing and the Life that He has purchased for you in His identification with you that is both complete and perfect!
Amen!!!
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