My God Came Down

God's word is more than a treasure we hold with our hands or read with our eyes.  It goes to work on our hearts and minds, revealing the reality of God's goodness to people who were once blind and in spiritual darkness.  It has power to cleanse our minds from error as we drink it in and works to strengthen our faith as we heed it.  It reveals plainly spiritual and practical realities that were in operation long before we were  made aware of them.  Paul said he would not have known sin except by the Law of Moses, and we Gentiles would not have known or recognised Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah without God's word.

It is remarkable how God chose to inhabit human form and come to earth to seek and save sinners Himself.  It was incredible enough when He thundered and spoke from Mount Sinai; it was wonderful how He spoke to Elijah in a small, still voice.  Yet God did more than stoop to behold us in our condemned state, for He became one of us.  He brought the power, wisdom and love of God down to our level as He walked among men.  Luke 6:17-18 says of Jesus, "And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, ¹⁸ as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed."

After calling His apostles on the mount, Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place--literally and in a spiritual sense.  He came down to the level of people who were from all over, a multitude of Jews and Gentiles who came to hear Him, be healed of their diseases and delivered from the torment of unclean spirits.  They were healed because they came to Jesus who is able to save all who come to Him.  The miraculous healing Jesus performed was a sign that directed people to consider Who He was, that He was the Messiah God prophesied would be sent.  They would see the excellency of God in what He would do among them as Isaiah 35:4-6 reads, "Say to those who are fearful-hearted, "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you." ⁵ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. ⁶ Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert."

Who but Jesus has opened the eyes of people born blind, cause the deaf to hear and the lame to leap?  Who else can give the Living Water of the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?  Though His vengeance is yet to be displayed to all, let us praise Him with our whole hearts for coming down to our level, for revealing Himself as the Light of the World to those who were in darkness awaiting eternal judgment. May our praise, gratitude and thanksgiving be lifted up to His throne of grace, where having sat down He reigns on high over all.