I love the Lord's Supper. I treasure the reminder that it brings of Christ's sacrifice for us on the cross. As I was driving to work this morning, I began thinking about how undeserving we all are of God's grace and about how undeserving Christ's punishment was.
But while we talk much about Christ's ultimate act on the cross, we tend to consider less his earthly acts before that event. We should be constantly perplexed by the fact that Jesus, lord over all features of the universe in a broad sense and over each detail of our lives in a narrow sense, left His high and exalted position to seek and save a human race that, multiple times each second, rebels against His authority. The pain and heartache we experience on earth has general or specific causation to sin. Jesus came, however, with full knowledge that his pain and heartache would be due to His untainted righteousness.
As the old hymn puts it:
Man of Sorrows, what a name
For the Son of God, Who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim.
Hallelujah! What a Savior.
Guilty, vile, and helpless we;
Spotless Lamb of God was He;
Full atonement can it be?
Hallelujah! What a Savior.
Or as a more contemporary song poses, how many kings could ever do what Jesus did?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noz8hc8u7Xc.
Just take a moment over the next few days to thank Jesus for his amazing acts that made available our redemption.
We'll be in the third and fourth chapters of Ecclesiastes this week. Hope to see you on Sunday morning!
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