“To be like Jesus all I ask is to be like Him”, this comes from a song I sang years back, but it is quite a statement. When I consider His accomplishments, and there is so many that the bible tells us that if all His good deeds had been recorded all the books in the world would not be able to contain His accomplishments here on earth. Let that sink in, contemplate who this man was, and who it was that came to earth, born of a virgin and then died for the sins of mankind, who by default all because of Adam’s sin where and are still born as sinners. He never ever sinned, not once. Yes He was God in the flesh, he was subject to the volatility of the flesh, and He went through puberty like every other boy. If He stubbed his toe he would have felt the pain and so on.
I am obviously able to understand the body and its ailments, however the Lord Jesus was never born into sin as the seed that conceived Him was from God and not fallen man. He did however come from an ancestry that was promised to Abraham and we see that He came out of the lineage of Boaz, Ruth’s Husband, they had a Son Obed and then He has a son Jesse and then came David, who eventually became king. And Jesus was born to Mary down that line of parentage. So He was born through the lineage as the bible had predicted, yet without mans seed affecting His righteousness in sin. God impregnated Mary, a virgin woman with His seed and a child was born to her. She was his mother and it is right to say that she was the mother of Jesus the man but could never be the mother of God as God has neither beginning nor end; we must understand this error, as it is claimed in some religion circles even today. Mary is worship as the mother of God. God has no mother, for someone to have a mother it means that they must have a beginning they must be born or created: God was never born nor created! Jesus on the other hand was born as a child, God in the flesh, so His carnal life had a beginning, that is true but His spiritual life has always been. He is God! So God became a man, yet he never ever sinned, nonetheless He was tempted in every point like we are; now that is an amazing statement from the writer of Hebrews. (Hebrews 4:15) “For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Consider this man Jesus, what a man He was! He had faith so that He could walk on water; ah, you may say that as God He can do anything, well said, but remember He also understood the weakness of the flesh and all its potential hang-ups. It would be a good exercise to ponder some of His exploits and challenges, think about His life on earth and then stand back with your mouth ajar, gob smacked by the man Jesus, bless His name!
What a great Saviour, thank you Jesus for dying for me.
“So all I ask is to be like Jesus”, is that all Mr. Songwriter! The truth is that we will be like Him, when we see Him as He is we will receive a body Like His, what a day that will be. I move my arm as I type and I feel the twitch of tennis elbow, my leg is stiff from my fall yesterday and my body aches just from the ridding my motorbike. A day will come where there will be no more pain, this is a fact my beloved family in Christ, we will be changed, “it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.” There is a day coming in the not too distant future when we all that believe and confess Jesus as Lord will receive a body like His, we will forever live in His presence with God as our Father, even so come quickly Lord Jesus!
Signing off
Tyrone
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