I was thinking about the season we just finished with.
Jesus was selected by God for the position of Messiah. His selection didn’t come about in the normal way, as one would select applicants for a job, or winners for a prize, or even as you were selected to be an inmate. He was selected from before the foundation of the world and placed in the womb of a woman to be the Messiah.
Philippians says that even though he was God, he allowed himself to be demoted and made human so that he could share in the experience with us.
You remember that show “Hart to Hart” with the incredibly rich couple who did stuff. In the first episode, there was a scene at the dock with stevedores loading a ship. I don’t remember all of the plot, but one of the workers was Jonathan Hart, the owner of the world practically. However, he had something bad going on and he had to become a stevedore in order to find out what it was. When he found out and solved the problem, he went back to his penthouse.
That was Jesus. Mankind had a flaw and Jesus had to share in the flaw, yet not succumb to it. He had to become human in order to do this. Christmas celebrated his birth, the traditional observance of the day that he came out into the world ready to live as a human being. He was a baby with all the problems of a baby, along with the problem of learning to obey his parents and ultimately God.
As the scriptures said, we have a high priest who knows what it is like to be one of us. He was not brought in from outside to rule the company but proved himself on the field. He showed that he can be a leader that people will respect as knowing what is happening and being able to overcome it.
Not only can he overcome it, but he can also give you the ability to overcome it yourself; not of your own ability, but through his ability.
Yet at the same time, he was brought in from outside. He was the son of the president who worked his way up through the company. He was like us, yet he had the mind of God.
Since he is so able, we can “approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” God will bless us through him
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