-- Psalms 113:5-6
This is the love of Jesus -- That He would leave His glory at the Father's side in heaven to live on earth with us. That He would humble Himself not only to behold the things that are in the heavens and in the earth, but to be submitted unto death at the hands of His own creation.
John chapter 1 references the idea that not only was Jesus there from the beginning, but that "All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that is made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
The idea of us finding life through Jesus' victory over death wasn't something God just threw in midstream as a lifeboat.
No, in providing for our salvation, He used the same source He'd used to bring all life into existence -- Jesus.
And Jesus humbled Himself to dwell among what had been made through Him, to be ultimately subject to the sentence issued by hearts he'd kneaded together in the womb.
If you are ever grasping for proof that Jesus is who He says He is, consider this: He died at the hands of sinful men for the hearts of sinful men. But the reason death could not hold Him is that in Him is life -- not simply that He is alive, but that He is -- and always will be -- the source of life.
That's why it is Jesus alone that has the power to save us from death -- because it's through Him alone that all life was made.
A friend recently posted a C.S. Lewis quote that seemed appropriate for today's verse:
"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt ... It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."
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"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." -- John 1:1-3
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