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When the disciples asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus responded with a rebuke. How long had he been among them, telling them every day about his Father and yet they didn’t know? Something was different about Jesus. To the outside world he was the son of Joseph. But he was unlike Joseph, he bare no resemblance to him. In fact he was unlike any other man; the wind and the waves obeyed him.
If God could of designed a man it would be Christ. Oh wait you say, God did design a man named Adam. But Adam was different from Christ, he had the breath of God put in his nostrils. Adam was like the rest of creation. He was good. It pleased God that he had made him, but Adam wasn’t God’s son. Adam wasn’t holy. He was separate from God and as sin came into Adam’s life he became separated from God. He needed someone to mend the relationship with God. He needed a savior.
Christ from birth was never separated from the Father, that is until the crusifixtion. Hours of Christ’s life had been spent in prayer communing with God. To bring man into fellowship with God, the Godhead worked out a way to satisfy the anger of God and at the same time make man holy. The Father and Son had contrived a way to make man holy.
Jesus was made in the physical image of a man. On the outside he was like us. The difference is he was from the get-go communing through prayer with his Father. At twelve years old he told his earthly parents, “shouldn’t I be about my Father’s work?” He was different from other boys, not consumed with nonsense, but he spent a lot of time in prayer. Sure, he learned Joseph’s trade, was a model of what you’d hoped your child would be, however he knew he was born for a different reason then most boys. He wasn’t going to reproduce another batch of fallen Adams; Jesus was making a way for man to be born again.
I would think his holiness would be somewhat unnerving to others. He was continually seeking God, building his physical man for the task at hand which was preparing to pay once and for all the sins of the whole world. Was there another way to save the world from God’s judgment? Just before the cross Jesus offered up that question. Was there another way? Jesus is trapped in this body of flesh, He could cut and run at any time. But he left Heaven and all its splendor, put on this body of flesh, degraded himself to being a man, and seeking God everyday to maintain his holiness. Jesus was going to be forever in the likeness of man. Would he fail in the very reason he was born? No. He had to do the Father’s will. His man part didn’t want to; his God part made it impossible to say no.
We’re told if we seek God we will find him. It’s in our nature to worship something but it’s not in our nature to seek God. Jesus prayed for his disciples, they prayed for their followers and the chain of prayer has continued ever since. We pray and the Holy Spirit does the work.
We don’t come to Christ on our own. Someone prayed for us. Maybe our family, our friends, our pastor; someone is praying for you. Jesus came into the world for one purpose, to die for the sins of the world, to give others the invitation to seek God. We find Christ because of the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us the ability to be holy, wholy acceptable to God. We have to question ourselves on whether we are living to save the lost and give what’s necessary to achieve that end. In short, are we hear for the same purpose Christ came? Or do we want to live under the illusion that we are now perfect and can go about our business of being the success that Adam never was?
Through prayer all things are possible because time spent communing with God is the only important time we spend. Being like Christ means spending a lot of time praying and that will remind ourselves why we are here. Christ humble himself and we too must do the same. Give up the “glories” of this world, degrade ourselves in the eyes of the world, willing to be called Christian. Is our all on the alter or not. Is to live Christ and die gain?