2 Kings 17:1-41; Jeremiah 51:1-24; 1 Timothy 1:1-20
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld… John 1:14 NKJV
Our Lord didn’t live in a protective bubble where each appearance was sheltered and staged. Domestically, He experienced infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood within a family that was divided about Him. Socially, He attended the events of life—weddings, funerals and banquets. He knew what it was to do piecework in a carpentry shop and sail in fishing boats. Physically, He experienced storms, sleepless nights, exhaustion, hunger and thirst. Emotionally, He felt the wounds of rejection, betrayal and scorn. And, spiritually, when “he…made him to be sin for us” (2 Cor. 5:21) He was left unsheltered at the Cross. —Peter Ramsay
Jesus! All perfections, rise and end in Thee;
Brightness of God’s glory, Thou, eternally. —D. A. McGregor