Lo, this is our God we have waited for Him!
Isaiah {25:7} And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail
that is spread over all nations. {25:8} He will swallow up
death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it.
]{25:9} And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is]
the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation. {25:10} For in this mountain shall
the hand of the LORD rest,
He will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people.
He will destroy the vail that is spread over all nations.
Coverings and vails what do they typically do? Hide things, right? They hide things either from someone seeing in or someone seeing out. When you cover your head you prevent others from seeing your head but you also limit your own ability to see outward.
1 Cor. {13:12} For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am
known.
Our understanding is limited by sin it can be no other way. Sin corrupts and warps things, and we are born with the propensity to sin. Sin limits us with it's presence in our lives and in the world. We know in part, we see through a dark glass, our vision, our knowledge is limited. Even with our limited knowledge we are allowed to see, to know the way to Christ. Our salvation is not hidden from us, it is found in Jesus and all have the opportunity to know Him, to know the Love of God. We are given enough light through that dark glass, we are allowed to know in part but one day we will see clearly. One day there will be no dark glass, nothing hidden.
He will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people. He will destroy the vail that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death in victory.
The Lord God will wipe away tears from off faces.
No more death.
No more tears.
Revelation {21:4} And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain: for the former things are passed away.
Praise God! Such hope! Such promise!
Isa. 25:8...and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it.
]{25:9} And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is]
the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation. {25:10} For in this mountain shall
the hand of the LORD rest,
All praise and glory to God!
In that day we will say... Lo, this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him and we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!
Can you picture it? Close your eyes for a moment and just imagine being able to say those words.
Lo, this is our God we have waited for Him!
We wait for Him, He is our promise. Our hope isn't in ourselves, it is in Jesus!
We need to take our eyes off ourselves and place them on our One and Only Hope, Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior!
Praise the Lord!
Lo, this is our God we have waited for Him!
He will save us!
This is the Lord we have waited for Him!
We will be glad and rejoice in His Salvation!
Praise be to God now and forever!
Amen
3/7/10
Heb 2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Heb 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Heb 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
The nature of angels- spirit.
Psa 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire
Heb 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Jesus did not take on the nature of a spirit. Jesus took on the nature of the seed of Abraham which was human nature. Some want to believe Jesus didn't really take on the nature of a human being, that He didn't face any of the temptations we do, not really. He some how had this special ability to resist that we in no way can possibily ever possess. Were we born like Him? No. We in no way can even think for a flicker of a heartbeat that we were born of God as He was born of God without a human father. But Jesus took on humanity, He took on the flesh and the Bible is clear when it tells us that ... 'he himself hath suffered being tempted'. If Jesus had some special ability that enabled Him to resist temptation then He wouldn't have suffered. He suffered though. He suffered through the temptations that came His way and He relied upon His Father to keep Him and His Father did. Jesus had to surrender Himself fully to the Father as a human being, the nature that was prone to sin had to be surrendered to God the Father because God the Son chose to give up His eternal spirit self and merge it with flesh forever.
Jesus wanted to be made like us. Jesus wanted to know what it meant to be a human being born into a sin-filled world. Jesus wanted to save us, to be merciful and to be our high priest forever with God. Jesus wanted to reconcile us to to God and the only way He could to that was to die for our sins. We have a Creator that stepped down from a very lofty height and chose to become created in flesh. In the womb of Mary He was formed slowly, cell by cell, bit by bit just as all babies are formed. He wasn't instantly in Mary's belly ready to be birthed. She had to carry Him for nine months as He grew within her. He literally took on flesh in a miraculous way without human seed. The Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary, the Holy Spirit formed the spirit seed of God that united with Mary's human egg, human and God united to form the Son of God in flesh. The Spirit of God that was Jesus along with the Spirit Father God in the beginning created heaven and earth and the Spirit of God that took on flesh became Jesus, Son of God forever in flesh. The mystery of it all is something we live with and by faith we believe. Jesus overcame so we could overcome through His righteousness. He came and saved us, doing for us what we can never do for ourselves. When we are tempted we must cling to Jesus. When we fall we must cling to the forgiveness He offers us and live in His righteousness.
Jesus wasn't an angel. Jesus was uniquely God and human combined. Jesus set aside His divinity to overcome the weakness of the flesh in humanity and prevailed though Satan threw everything imaginable at Him to tempt Him to sin. Praise God for the victory of Christ our only hope. The love of God is beyond our full comprehension but we understand enough to know we must believe in that love. We are blessed so very blessed.
By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior, our Creator and Redeemer, Jesus Christ now and forever.
Amen.
3/7/11