Jesus Christ is LORD

“The mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory” (1 Timothy 3:16).

Jesus Christ is more than just King of the Jews; He is Heir to a universal throne. Into His hands the Father has committed the maintenance of His limitless glory and the carrying out of His will. Every created being is in His power from the highest angel in heaven to the meanest demon below.

His personal greatness is greater than all that He will do. He is the Son and none can know the mystery of His eternal relationship with the Father but the Father Himself. The Son became Man that He might reveal the Father’s name and the Father’s love—that the fullness of joy and everlasting satisfaction and love revealed in that name might be ours.

He came that we might share the Father’s house with Him in the future but now He knows everything, hears every sigh, sees every tear, and weighs every burden. All the sorrow and sordidness of men’s lives are uncovered before His eyes. And He stretches out His hands and cries, “Come to Me.”

Of course, only God could speak like that! Who but God can sooth every fevered spirit, relieve every guilty conscience, bind up every broken heart, and bless every troubled sinner? Yes, great is the mystery of godliness. Only God could speak thus, and yet these words came from the lips of Jesus of Nazareth, the lowly, rejected Nazarene. Indeed, God was manifested in flesh! And the time will come when every knee shall bow “of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father’s glory” (Phil. 2:10-11).

J.T.M.