Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Galatians 4:4 - One small step and a giant leap?

"Bt when came the fullness of time, God sent out His Son, having come to be out of woman, having come to be under law..."

-Yes, God made a way, a way for us to be set free from bondage to the elemental things of the world, from enslavement to the childish, oppressive law of works which could never make any of us acceptable or pleasing to God.  So He made a way.  And it was not the way we would have guessed...


-He sent out His Son, in the fullness of time, on the date determined by the Father Himself (cf v. 2).  The picture here is that of One Who had pre-existed (as God) and Who had been with the Father in glory from eternity past (cf Philippians 2.6).  And yes, this sending out was the consummate picture of humbling oneself, of not simply staying in heavenly glory and of not holding on to rights and rank and status and prerogatives (of deity), as this Son of God did step down onto the world stage not with pomp and pageantry but rather thru the womb of a young woman in some unassuming Jewish backwater.  No parade, no trumpets (altho I do believe at one point there was a chorus of angels!).  But further constrained (and humbled) was God the Son by the taking on of human flesh, confined for the first time in history to a single place and time in history and subject to the same frailties and limitations as the rest of humanity.  Hunger.  Fatigue.  Bodily functions.  Infinite God became entirely (and finitely) human (try wrapping your gray matter around that one!).  AND He was born "under the Law", fully subject to all its dictates, you name it - circumcision, the feasts, everything.  Not only did He walk in our shoes, but inasmuch as He would do so perfectly, missing not even a single step, not missing the mark or transgressing the Law at any point, He would thus come to be the perfect sufficient sacrifice for our multitudinous missteps, the spotless Lamb of God, Whose precious human blood would finally and forever take away the guilt of our sins.  One small step for the Son of Man, a giant leap indeed for all mankind...!

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