"The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world." -
1Jo_4:14
The love of God is seen in that the orders for Christ to come are from Him. Jesus needed His Father's permission, authority, consent, and assistance. Apart from any of these, and the mission would fail. How like us? We need to go, do, and become what the will of the Father is - with His permission, authority, consent, and assistance. Jesus' power to save is wrapped up in his submission to the will of the Father. His power is not His own, His will is not His own.
What words did Jesus speak that did not come from the Father? What deed did Jesus do that did not come from the Father? What journey did Jesus take that did not come from the Father? Why then, believer, is it the Man named Jesus you trust and not the Son? You might find the Man to be a friend, but the God is the Savior. I do not neglect the man in favor of the God, but it is His deity that unites Him with the Father, and through that deity, we also are united with the Father through Christ. His humanity is an essential link for us, giving us something to see, hold, smell, and hear. But we are from there pulled out of the physical and into the spiritual dimension through faith in the Word of Christ. And so the Father sent the Son to be Savior of the world!
This day, I think on the love of the Father to see my need and send His Son. I think on the perfect enterprise of Christ to save my soul. I think on His perfect submission to the perfect will of the Father - and ask Him to help me be as submitted. What love and what peace?!
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