The Man Jesus

I am currently taking a Systematic Theology class and our first topic has been Christology (the study of Christ). I have reviewing my notes for a bit and decided I'd write a blog about Jesus. After studying for about an hour I wanted to weep and fall on my face because of who this man really is. I realized how little I know about Jesus, yet how important He is in this hour. I literally felt like my insides wanted to explode, and I sat back and had no clue what to do other than say what Job said, "Behold our God is great and we do not know Him."

The reality is that God became a man. I MEAN GOD BECAME A MAN!!! [I still don't even know what I am saying when I type this] The Son is an eternal being, and before He put on flesh He was with God for all eternity past. Yes, our salvation is based off of the Cross of Christ, but I feel like we may have forgotten about the Incarnation by looking only at the Cross. The truth is that the Incarnation displays just as much of our Salvation. The LOGOS (John 1) makes for Himself a completely moral nature!!

Read this quote from Dr. Cross a couple of times and see if your heart does not burn within you:

"The human soul and mind (being in the very image of God) constitute an intermediary link through which deity can "consort" with flesh so that what deifies and what is deified can become one God."

The fellowship of divinity and humanity was in Christ. In one person, Jesus Christ, is a sharing of properties unique to each nature. As a mediator, the God-Man must be divine and human fully.

Read this quote from Thomas Oden and let it hit your heart:

"In this way the deity participated in the Passion (suffering) of the humanity and the humanity in the majesty of the deity without blurring or confusing either."

We must begin to fall in love with Jesus. He is the God-Man. There is none like Him, and I want Him to be my only obsession. I want to spend hours meditating on the glory of this man, and fall deeper in love with Him!!! I hope this encourages you.