God, by His own choice, purpose , will and design,created mankind in His image and likeness. We have seen previously how the members of the Triune God, the Trinity, relate to one another. It’s a relationship of love and affirmation. To have been designed and created by God in His image therefore means we were designed to relate; we were designed to relate to God and to each other like the members of the Trinity relate, albeit not from the standpoint that we are divine.
God makes this relationship real to us in the Person of the Spirit. It’s the Spirit who applies this truth and makes this relationship from heaven actual and active in our hearts. IT IS FOR THIS WE WERE CREATED. How utterly amazing that we have been brought into, placed into and caught up by God Himself into the love He has for the Son. If only we could understand, really understand what this means for us!! God’s love for us is so far beyond what humanity in it’s fallen condition could ever imagine, God had to send His Beloved Son to earth to model it for us.
Day by day as Jesus walked the earth going about His Father’s business and concerns, modeling for us that heavenly relationship, the shadow of the cross loomed closer and closer. He, as the eternal Son knew what lay ahead for Him. What was it that sustained Him, what keep Him from breaking down from just the thought of the abject horror that awaited Him? To have lived in eternity in the unbroken glory of being in the bosom of the Father and to know He would cry out, hanging there on the cross, “my God, my God why hast thou forsaken Me. One trembles at just the thought. Though no human mind can comprehend and human language has no words to describe what that moment meant for God, we do know that Father and Son knew the final result. John 13:3 ” Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, AND THAT HE WAS COME FROM GOD, AND WENT TO GOD”, the explanation of which is John 17:24 “Father I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me,BE WITH ME, WHERE I AM; THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY, WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME; FOR THUOU LOVEDST ME FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
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