Can we really conceive what it meant for... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

God ... has ... spoken to us by his Son, ... through whom also he made the worlds, ... the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person.Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, ... that he, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 1:1-3; 2.9

Can we really conceive what it meant for our Lord to come down from heaven into this terrible world? He, the Son of God, had been in the Father's house and in the Father's bosom from eternity.

God created the angels by His Son even before the earth. Innumerable angels waited for the slightest sign to obey His word and do what pleased Him. Seraphim cried out: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts", as Isaiah reported when he "saw his glory and spoke of him" (Isaiah 6:3; John 12:41).

The Son came to us on earth from this scene of glory where everything was in harmony with Himself, where all is light and love and no darkness can be found and where God dwells in light unapproachable.

Here He had to live in an environment of sin, hatred and darkness, darkness so impenetrable that light could produce no change in the world. He who was light had to live here surrounded by moral darkness for 33 years, where everything stood in opposition to Him. Here He found only sin and hatred, no agreement with God on the part of His creatures, and neither love nor reverential treatment.

Yet He, who had been the object of the Father's love and joy in heaven, entered this hostile scene, so that "he might taste death for everyone". What amazing grace and unfathomable love!

Today's reading: Judges 21:1-25 · Psalm 77:1-10