God Was Manifested In The Flesh

God Was Manifested In The Flesh

Jesus Christ is more than just King of the Jews; He is Heir to a universal throne. Into His hands the Father has committed the maintenance of His limitless glory and the carrying out of all His will.

His absolute and universal supremacy is assured. The disposal of every created being is in His power, from the highest angel in heaven to the meanest demon in hell. At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven, on earth and under the earth.

But His personal greatness is greater than all that He will do. For He is the Son, and none can know the mystery of His eternal being and of His eternal relationship but the Father. He became Man that He might reveal the Father’s Name and the Father’s love – that the fullness of joy and everlasting satisfaction revealed in that Name and love might be ours.

He came that we might share the Father’s house with Him. Behold Him in the presence of the world’s need. He knew everything. He heard every sigh, saw every tear and weighed every burden. No heart was hidden from Him: the sorrow and sordidness of men’s lives were all uncovered before His eye. And He stretched out His hands to the world with its countless woes and needs and cried, “Come unto Me!”

Of course, we say at once that only God could speak like that. For who but God could soothe every fevered spirit, relieve every guilty conscience, bind up every broken heart and bless every troubled sinner? Great is the mystery of godliness! Only God could speak thus, and yet these words came from the lips of Jesus, the lowly, rejected Nazarene. Indeed, God was manifested in the flesh!

“Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16

By J. T. Mawson