I'm meditating after seeing the movie "The Greatest Story Ever Told" from 1965.
There was the Godhead from eternity past (something the human mind cannot comprehend) from way before this universe came into being, and they say the universe is 14 BILLION LIGHT YEARS OLD - light travels at 186,000 miles PER SECOND!!!
We know from the New Testament (NT) that God had a plan for this earth and the human kind BEFORE the world was. And that plan was to create human kind who would all fall into sin (1 John 3:4 which is the way of going contrary to the commandments of God), and a God figure, person, would be the only sacrifice for sin that could redeem mankind and give them salvation.
The NT tells us that ONE of the TWO members of the Godhead was willing to GIVE UP being God, being Eternal, being in the GLORY of the Godhead, and was willing to come to earth in the form of a man - come flesh and blood, take on all the physical functions that human kind have, having to eat food to live, sleep to rest the body, and yes go to the toilet as all of us humans must do.
This Godhead person would have to become SEED - a human sperm seed. The Bible tells us that NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE for God, nothing is too hard for Him to do. So with a MIRACLE the One we now call the Father, took the One we now call Jesus Christ, took that GLORIFIED person and with the wave of the hand so to speak, turned that MIGHTY GLORY PRINCE into a frog, as we might say. But being specific that ETERNAL MIGHTY GLORIFIED ONE OF THE GODHEAD became a human SPERM SEED.
Think about this for a moment. A human sperm seed does not KNOW it is a human sperm seed! Oh yes it is alive, it has a built in knowledge of what it is supposed to do.....swim and fertilize an egg inside of a physical human woman. But that sperm does not have a developed brain to know it is a sperm per se. And even when united with a human egg, for sure for ex number of weeks it does not know it is developing into a human baby. Maybe we could argue that the God now as a baby, and as the NT tells us was filled without measure with the Holy Spirit, that the baby Jesus inside Mary knew who He was, and where He was etc. But that is only speculation that it was so. If God the Father just let the sperm and egg unite and continue to form as all us humans form before birth. Then.....well do you remember being inside your mother's body before birth. Yes okay, they say everything is in the human mind but we do not retrieve such knowledge UNLESS you have been on mind-bending drugs. I once read about a teen on mind bending drugs who said they went back in time into their mother's body and were being born into this world. They said it was a horror movie. We know it is not a horror per se to be born, but going back in time from the present to your mind recalling being born......well to that person who experienced it, it was to them a frightful experience. You can meditate on that, I will move on.
For a time, in the natural world as God created it, the God who became a sperm seed DID NOT KNOW it! That Godhead person had to be willing to place His entire Eternal life in the Father's hands, and have faith that the Father would make sure everything went safe and well, for that Godhead sperm to unite with the physical human egg inside of the woman chosen, and that the maturing of that sperm and egg would be protected, and come to be a full baby, which would be born into the world after about 9 months.
Now meditate on that!!
Then a baby does not really know it is a baby. Can you remember being 2 months old, then 4 months old then 6 months old and so on? Was the Godhead Jesus any different? Well some may argue He was, and want to think Jesus said to Himself, "Oh nice, I'm now one month old, I sure enjoy being breast fed."
NOPE ....I do not think so! Some are going to say I'm blaspheming, surely the Godhead Jesus knew He was one week old and then one month old etc. Well call me what you like.....NOPE do not think so, that the baby Jesus knew He was one month old and then two months old etc. I believe He was just like any baby, and when Jesus was say 3 years old did not remember coming out of Mary's birth canal. Yes He had the Spirit of God from conception and had it without any limits. But I really do not believe having the Spirit of God without measure was given without measure so Jesus could remember being in Mary's womb, and then coming down the birth canal, and then being one month old.
If Jesus was willing to TRUST the Father to look after him as a sperm seed, then surely He also had the FAITH to know the Father would look after Him coming down the birth canal, and being a baby of one, two, three etc. months old.
I'm trying to get you to meditate on the LOVE and the FAITH that Jesus had to have to willfully say to the Father, "Yes, Father, I will be the Godhead sacrifice that only a member of the Godhead could take away the sins of the world, so human people can be saved into Your Kingdom!"
I do not think we stop to meditate on the sacrifice of Christ from the BEGINNING ASPECT, not very deeply anyway. We all look at the cross, the crucifixion of Christ (and of course we should), but IT ALL STARTED WAY BEFORE THE CROSS friends! WAY BEFORE THE CROSS! It all started the moment the One we call the Father, devised a plan for planet earth and the humans He wanted to create on it. The SACRIFICE of Christ started from that very second the Father had a plan. The NT tells us in clear language the Lamb of God was sacrificed from before the foundations of the earth.
I'm just trying to get you to meditate on way more than just the cross of Calvary, as wonderful and as important as that is, to that plan that God the Father had from before the foundations of the earth.
NOW, I'm also meditating on another thing.
This Godhead person was going to unite with an egg inside a physical woman on the earth.
WOW....now stop.....meditate.....a physical woman had to be chosen. I'm not so much meditating on the importance of God the Father picking the right woman; God can see the innermost of the mind and heart of anyone. Of all the women in Judea, that side of it was nothing for God to do, I'm meditating on the WOMAN! And her thoughts!! You women reading this....put yourself in Mary's shoes or sandals as the case was. First you have an angel coming to you......how many of you have had THAT experience to begin with. I have not. I mean an actual angel appearing to you, and then if that was not enough all by itself, this angel tells you something......not that you look nice, or have some nice clothes, or it's good you go to the synagogue regularly, or that you are marrying a good man called Joseph. This angel tells you that YOU have been chosen to carry the Godhead baby that will be called Jesus, and that He is the one to save people from their sins....the SAVIOR, the promised MESSIAH mentioned for centuries in God's word the Bible.
PUT YOURSELF RIGHT NOW IN MARY'S SANDALS!!!
My emotions put me there, but to put this into words for you, just is not easy. I mean you are going to carry inside your body a member of the GODHEAD!!!
You see your stomach grow, you know this baby is growing, but this is not just ANY baby, it is GOD inside you, coming into this world as a baby - human form - a God sperm seed united with your physical human egg, and you are carrying GOD!!
As a man I can only get a small glimpse of what the depth of emotion it must have been for Mary. You women can probably feel more depth of it than I can, because you are a woman able to bring a baby to term and have it born. But think on having a member of the Godhead inside of you as a baby.......
words escape me...so I will not try any more words.....just MEDITATE on it, and see what it must have been like for Mary to be told the baby she would carry was from the Godhead!
Then the day of birth, in a cattle barn, in a cattle manger to rest your Godhead baby. You and some shepherds from the hills, and your husband Joseph are looking at GOD IN THE FLESH, AS A HUMAN BABY........
IT ALL BLOWS ME AWAY......MEDITATE ON IT ALL!!!!
THEN THANK BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON!!!!
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