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Monday, September 21, 2009
*.* Jesus Christ - The most practical Man in the world *.*
He sits on the throne and looked into something so small that normal human eye won’t be able to see, but He looked at it and said: “It is time”. He knows what must be done to save His people and He decided to send His only Son into that small area that no one but only He can see. What a practical God we have, He sends his Son down as a human to take away the sin of the world. Who in the right mind will do that, but God just did it.
Jesus came down to a small planet call earth and He was born away from His home, His land and with nothing but the smell of a merger. Jesus was later brought to a place called Nazarene (Branch, Separated One), and until this point I start to see that He was born separated so that we won’t be. How dreadful it is when we see heroes in our drama program that they are separated from their family, but how many truly understand? Perhaps maybe those that are born orphan, but Jesus understood what and how it feels like to be separated.
The few things Jesus did was to be baptized and tempted by devil. Ever wonder why Jesus was baptized? When John was baptizing people, it was a baptism of repentance but Jesus doesn’t need repentance. He had nothing to repent about, but He was baptized so that we will be our repentance and we died together with Him in our sins when we are baptized. The past of us have been leave behind in the water and all things of old have passed and we are a new creation in Christ. Later Jesus was lead to be tempted by the devil and was failed to be tempted. Does it comfort us to know that Jesus knows what we have been through during the times of temptation?
Jesus felt compassion and understand the needs of His people and He told us not to worry about those that we seek. He knows we have problems and questions so He asked that we seek, ask and knock and we will be able to find, things will be open and what we asked will be given. He gave rest and food to the hunger when they where out of their homes, He even raise the dead and healed the sick. To be even more practical, in His healing, He even spit on mud and people’s eyes to prove that He don’t only heal by words. He can heal in many normal, practical and supernatural natural ways people will not imagine and it still works.
Jesus was asked about His authority, He was challenged to condemning or releasing a woman caught in adultery and He was even questioned if it is lawful to heal on Sabbath. Every time He managed to give them answers that is so practical that it will amaze everyone, held their tongues and embarrasses people. Jesus knew what it is like to be questioned, doubted/asked and even challenged, but do we truly believe that when we are being questioned, asked, doubted and challenged, He will be there to give us the most practical answer?
Lastly the final moment came, when He have to do what He must to bridge us to our Daddy. He sweated blood He knows what it is like to be stress, so that we won’t be stress in our daily life. Jesus Barabbas (Savior, son of the father) who was a criminal and an evil doer was release and Jesus Christ (Savior, the Anointed) took his place. Both are named Savior, but the Anointed one that do no evil and did no sin was trade in our place, the son of the Father, who sin against everything and all possible ways we can imagine.
Jesus was beaten, bruised and wiped so that He can feel all the possible pain we felt when we are sick, gotten a disease or even when your body is not what it should have been. He was mocked and spat by people, so that He can be our comfort during those times when we are mocked, spat and put down. He wore the crown of thorns to take away the curse that was given from God to Adam. He was stripped to nothing and the feeling was how we once felt, so naked, cold, poor and ashamed. But He did it to let us know that we don’t need to feel naked, cold, poor and ashamed. He knows and He understands.
He begins to take up our cross, a cross that was not for Him but us. That was the cross everyone must pay when we pass away, that was the cross that should not be taken up in the first place. He took it for us and He walks this journey alone and only with the help of a stranger that He makes it to the hill. How lonely we must have felt to walk the rest of our life alone with no one to save us, even stranger cannot bring us help like a Father could. But Jesus knows and He walked that lonely road. He was pierced by 3 nails and hang up there with blood all over. Jesus even thought of our future generation by drinking the sour wine and in the last minute He called Daddy: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me.". The father's love for us turn His eyes away from His son and as Jesus is there all wrath came upon Him and He went to hell and back again.
It was not the nails that kept Him there, but something more powerful and strong, it was love. His blood is the only blood that can wash us from our sins. If you are there look into His eyes, look at His blood, look at His bruised body and look at Jesus, the burn offering for our sins. He did one practical thing that no one will understand, He die for us and conquered hell for us. The only practical thing that every one who believes in Him will never know is how much it cost to see that our sins upon Jesus. Now we turn around look up and freely we call: "My Daddy, my Daddy, you have not forsaken me."