In Honor of Jesus

     Jesus came to do the will of His Father. His Father's will was that He come down to this earth as a human being. God became man. How is this even possible and what does it say about our God? A God that can become a baby born in a stable and born to woman that has the curse of sin on her, just as we all do, who is He that is able to do this? As a baby, you are helpless, not in control. As a child, you obey your parents and submit to their discipline and correction. He gets older, and starts going about "His Father's business." Still He walks on the dirt roads, sits on a donkey, and works in His Father's shop. He gets baptized in a dirty river, submitting to the unthinkable and His Father announces how much He loves Him and how pleased He is with Him.
     His Father's heart, His Father's will are always before Jesus. Even so, He goes to pray. What does this say to us? He is on this sin cursed earth where the Enemy rages and storms. He is a man, born in the flesh, yet the Son of God. How His heart must have longed after His Father! How He must have yearned to be at His side again without the constraints that are upon Him now! Can we even imagine the communion Jesus longed for with His Father?
     Yet He said, "Not my will but Thine," when it came time to become sin for us. A man that knew no sin, Son of a Holy God, submitted to this awfulness, because it was His Father's will. The Enemy, no doubt, thought he had Him in his clutches. This is what it looked like. Like all was lost.
     The Enemy did not expect the resounding VICTORY and TROUNCING he got through Jesus' death and resurrection. The battle is won. "It is finished," said our Lord. The Enemy tries to keep us from believing this. He does not want us to become like a child and believe and trust. He wants us cynical, unbelieving and calloused.