It amazes me the ignorance that I am willing to display at times. We have today the shortest verse in the Bible and quite possibly one of my longer commentaries. We know and understand that He can speak volumes in two words that I cant say in a library full of text. I pray that it may please Him to filter any ignorance and truly press in our hearts His words and truth.
Extra Credit: I use to post a lot from Charles Spurgeon but haven’t in a little while. With that I did find this one from him that may be a perfect fit for today on the Comtemplation of the Divinity.
Jhn 11:35 Jesus wept.
- Where else is it recorded that Jesus Wept?
This is the shortest verse in the Bible but yet the volumes it speaks I would never be able to contain in my words. Many people it seems see Christ as a god/man or half god and half man. He is either seen by this belief as one who is gravely concerned with sin but unable to feel its sting, or one faced with temptations and suffering but unable to fully save. Due to His Divinity they believe He cannot be all man and due to His flesh He cannot be all God. This thinking though understandable to the natural man is not what we read in the scriptures. Christ is clearly all man and all God. Christ was in a very personal way a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isa 53:3). Christ in all ways was tempted as we are and knew intimately the depravity of mans heart. At the same time Christ was perfect in His walk and person and at all times holy. He toke those sins He was acquainted with and had the power, ability, and choice and accomplished complete salvation.
As our substitute He did not die with a distorted view of mans sin. Christ as man walked with the flesh with the temptations of the world but yet was without sin and did instead those things that pleased His Father. Then He with full knowledge willfully laid down His sinless life with imputed guilt of His elect upon Him. And with that death of His flesh and resurrection He did not make redemption available but completed the act. (Heb 2:13-17)
Hbr 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
