Footsteps of Jesus

For the next several weeks I’d like to follow the footsteps of Jesus as He moves through the gospels, and in the process observe His attributes, His character, His altogether loveliness. For in observing these things, we can observe the very qualities of God. Colossians 2:9 (Amplified) says, “For in Him (Jesus) the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead, continues to dwell in bodily form giving complete expression of the divine nature.”

Imagine! All the qualities of the divine nature are revealed in Jesus. Most of us already know the New Testament stories, but it’s always profitable to revisit them for new insights and revelation, or just to reinforce what we already know. In doing so I believe we’ll fall in love, all over again, with our wonderful Savior.

We first hear about Jesus in Matthew 1:21-23 and Luke 1:28-33 when the angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her she is to bear a son who is to be called Jesus and “the Son of the Highest,” and that the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. From this we know that God Himself named Jesus; that Jesus is the very Son of God, for there is no “Highest” than God; and that Jesus is a King. John 1:1-14 adds to this by saying, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made, in him was life; and the life was the light of men . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.” This tells us that Jesus is God, the living Word, the Creator and the light of men.

Next we see this amazing, wonderful Jesus coming in the flesh as a baby born in a smelly animal shelter, a birth unnoticed by the world at large. No velvet cushions were put under His head, no royal bedchamber to sleep in, no princes and noble lords paying homage. No pomp, no ceremony. None of that. And the royal birth announcement was made by holy angels, not to the powerful or the influential of the world, but to simple shepherds, ordinary people like you and me. And they declared that a Savior was born! Again, adding to the picture of who Jesus is.

Wow! How humbly and simply Jesus, the Son of the Highest, a King, the Savior, the living Word, God Himself, the Creator of everything, the light of men, enters the world! It takes my breath away. Most people want to shout their accomplishments and pedigree from the rooftops so that everyone will know who they are. But not our Jesus.

Just by this, Jesus has already shown Himself so far above anyone who has ever come before or since.

Until next week,

Sylvia