Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

This coming weekend millions of earnest Christians will be focusing
their study on the humanity of the Son of God. This will not detract in
the least from His divinity; they will “behold the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and in so doing will
“behold” Him as the One whose “name [is] Immanuel, which is translated,
God with us” (Matt. 1:23).

In order for us humans to “behold” Him, we must see Him as He has
revealed Himself to us. That is, He is “the Word [which] became flesh,
and dwelt among us.” It is there that we “behold His glory” (John
1:14). “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given” (Isa. 9:6).
“The humanity of the Son of God is everything to us,” says a thoughtful
writer. And Jesus Himself tells us to look, and look, and look to Him
in His humanity, for only thus can we perceive Him in His divinity. “As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but
have eternal life” (John 3:14). To “believe” in Him is the same as to
choose to “behold” Him. That was the only hope for the Israelites in
the wilderness bitten by the poisonous serpents--to “behold” that
serpent on the pole that Moses had made at the command of God,
representing Christ.

Yes, our very life itself, our salvation, depends on “beholding” Him in
His humanity which veils His divinity. No one can spend too much time
“beholding the Lamb of God” there. In Hebrews one we “behold” Him in
His pre-incarnation divinity, as “God” (vs. 8); but the inspired author
says we don’t “see” Him clearly until we “see Him” “made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death, . . . that He . . . might
by the grace of God taste death for everyone” (2:9). We must see Him
in His humanity.

The chapter goes on to focus our view intensely on Him as One who
“likewise took part” of the same “flesh and blood” that we have, so
that “in all things He had to be made like His brethren” (vss. 14-17).
Only so, as He has “suffered, being tempted [is He] able to aid [us]
who are tempted” (vs. 18). As we “behold” Him thus, are we becoming
fanatical? A million times, no! Why, He is our only hope!

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