Diving Into More Reality

On this closing day of the week, we are doubling our dipping as it were, as we delve more deeply into two more of the Scripture Verses already identified. It is obvious that our special deep diving will not end on this week, as we still have one more Scripture Text, from which we are to receive blessed and innumerable riches. Be that as it may, we carry on with activating two passages of Scripture in this offering. 

Ready we are to receive our third given Scripture text, where the sweetness of the dive is unquestionable. We listen to Jeremiah.

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name. Jeremiah 15: 16 ESV.

Let’s be most mindful here, for we want to hear, see, touch, smell and taste every single word that’s being exposed to us. We do not relish the thought even of being left out of any Spiritual food. We want nothing to bypass us, nothing to slip from our hands, and absolutely nothing to get away from our reach. Impossible you say! Most possible and receivable, I say, in and through faith in the Holy Spirit’s ability to do the impossible in you and me.

Check this! When God’s words were found, they brought no change to the heart of this servant of God. God’s words were not a joy and the delight of Jeremiah’s heart. However, only when he ate them, they became a joy and the desire of his heart.

God’s words will be there for us and we can admire them most sincerely; quote them most accurately; speak most eloquently about them; cherish them, respect them, and write them in gold even, but they make no difference to our dead and comatose spiritual lives. Like Jeremiah, unless we eat the words of God, which come from the Living Word, we will neither know, nor show the life that is in Jesus. Eat God’s words and they will become a joy and delight to each fainting and tired heart. May this be each person’s testimony. Jesus, Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by Your Name. Amen!

We are ready to receive the fourth given Scripture on this final day of the week, mindful that we have one more to carry over into the coming week. However, we want to complete this week’s offerings with Jesus, with whom we started our deep plunges.

Let me just refresh your memory of how we started. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1: 14.

We have accepted, without question or doubt, that Jesus became flesh. For we believe that He is totally human as He is totally Divine. We believe, as Ann Taylor, an eighteenth century hymn writer so poignantly, yet simply, proclaims to the entire world about Jesus.

Jesus who lived above the sky,

Came down to be a man and die.

And in the Bible we may read,

His love to those who were in need.

Don’t you see, noted boldly in those words, the Gospel truth that Jesus became a Man?

If you are as I am, this is all going well, until our fourth Scripture text is placed before us. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2: 8

What are you hearing? Whom are you seeing, before your disbelieving eyes? Are you as I was? This was not easy for me to jump into with enthusiasm and vigour. I fumbled, I hesitated and I procrastinated, as many thoughts kept crowding my mind, holding my feet fast. This is what I mean. I questioned that if Jesus is God, why does He have to become obedient? If, to become, as we have been taking this meaning with us all along, is to know change into what was not the case previously, then what am I to think? The One who is the embodiment of obedience, the One who is obedience itself, became obedient? What have those words just promised to you?

The truth is that I thought I was being most blasphemous, dishonouring and an unadulterated traitor to Jesus. I did not want to hear, see, think or feel anything more. Did any of you go through a similarly, rotten time?

We cannot but praise and give unalterable thanks to God, for He never ever, even in one instance, refused to obey any action of the Father, to save us from ourselves and all the evils that come to truly make us become traitors. I know that God’s Holy Spirit, efficiently and most effectively, snatched me from becoming totally taken by the deceiver, to becoming an obedient and humbled child of God. I am greatly happy to share what perhaps many of you already know, but what some like me, need to know and hear again.

That Jesus became obedient, shows that He was fully human like you and me.  Obedience to the Father, who is Spirit, is not the inclination of either man, or woman, who is of flesh.

That Jesus became obedient to the point of death, speaks of movement, of changes that had to take place daily, in His human life.  His obedience required a daily death of self, self-ways, self-thoughts, self-will, self-wants and more. Death to all of self, is the only way to life with God.

That Jesus became obedient, even to the ultimate, death on the cross, shines forth brilliantly, as this is humility to the lowest and the highest. Understand this, though, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men. Philippians 2: 6 – 7.

Now isn’t this a strange, yet true thing? The One who is the embodiment of obedience, the One who is obedience itself, became obedient, when He became flesh and lived with us. What have those words just professed to you?

O the incalculable and irresistible Living Word of God!

Hallelujah!