Accepting His Mission

Who could imagine what it would take for Jesus to accept the mission from His Father? You must be kidding, right? Enter into that broken, fallen world as a baby and live a human life that would be sacrificed for the sin of mankind? Um…let me think about it first. Isn’t there any other way?

My guess is Jesus looked down upon earth and saw the filth and stench of everything rotten and dying, including the spirits and souls of men destined for eternity apart from God. Death, disease, and decay. The walking (spiritually) dead crying out for deliverance and destiny. Yet, Jesus knew the importance of his mission and chose God’s will above his own, even if he might have wanted to stay in the glory and purity of heaven in the very Presence of God. My guess is he knew that it would involve a human life of suffering ending in the culmination of betrayal, abandonment, and a gruesome death by the hands of the very people he came to save.

Who can comprehend this decision? Jesus had heaven and the glory and Presence of God to compare with a human life on earth. The sacrificial love required to accept his mission and walk in obedience to His Father exudes feelings of awe and wonder within me. No one could ever know how much it cost Jesus to agree to this plan. We may have our ideas, but no one lived the life that Jesus lived. Only he knows through personal experience. And we are ever grateful he said yes and accepted his mission and entered into our world.

For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. –John 3:16