Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
Psalm 48:9
How the world can change in just a few days!
As I write this, the whole world is uniting in a fight against a common enemy — the COVID-19 virus. Anxiety and information swirl around, and questions. Like, What will happen to us all? To the world? Where is God in all this?
The author of Hebrews was on a mission. It was to convince redeemed Jewish believers that Jesus was not only their Savior, but their ONLY Savior and connection to God.
Undoubtedly that was a tough sell in light of the fact that for thousands of years every Jew was taught to rely on their High Priest to keep their connection to God in good order.
The Bible says Jesus became the perfect model of humanity, because of what he suffered. What does that actually mean?
The answer may surprise you. To understand this, we need to ponder Hebrews 2:5-18:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:1-5
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” Genesis 28:16 (NASB) Jesus often reveals himself in your rear view mirror. Sometimes you don’t recognize that he was in a certain place with you until you get a little further down the road. …
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
John 14:21
What does that actually mean for a born-again believer and disciple of Christ today? How does Jesus show himself?
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:21
How does Jesus show himself to the one who obeys him as an act of love?
“ I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
So spoke Jesus to Mary in the moments before he raised his beloved Lazarus from the dead. This story, recorded in John Chapter 11, is not only the greatest demonstration of Jesus’ power through the Holy Spirit. It also reveals the full depth of His human experience.
