He came for a reason. He was on a mission . . . . to show us God’s Love and God’s will. Let me illustrate this for you . . . .
Imagine for a moment that you are a scientist
and you study ants.
This may be a little hard to imagine,
but give it a try. You are the world’s foremost authority on ants. And
you have come to love ants very, very much. In fact, you’ve created a beautiful
ant farm for them to live in. It’s a wonderful world for them with everything
that they need.
But one day you look down at the world you’ve created and you notice that your ants are not living up to their potential. They’re fighting. They’re not working together. They need help! So you send them little messages with suggestions & guidelines for them. You even inspire certain ants to be role models for the others. But still they need help.
Now consider this, if you had supernatural powers what would be the best way to get your message across to the ants? That’s right! You could become an ant! You could take on the body of ant, and yet you could still have all your human knowledge and intelligence to help them. You would be the Ant Man! Fully Human-Fully Ant. Then you could teach them and show them personally face-to-face how to really live.
God did this for us in Jesus. He became one of us. The God Man. Fully Human-Fully Divine. He did this to show us how to live. We’re to live like Jesus. He came to show us the way. He also came to tell us that our Creator loves us.
There’s an old saying you might have heard, "When you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself." Well, God decided to take the job upon himself, so that we might always know that we are loved.
Let’s pray.
Thank You, God, that You became one of
us in Jesus, to show us how to live and to tell us so clearly that we are
loved. We are so grateful and we love You in return. In Jesus’ Name we
pray. Amen.
Rich Knight