Daily Worship, Spirit and Word Aug. 23, 2024
Jesus, The Son of God, calls The Father, “My God”. Why did Jesus who is one with The Father call Him, “My God”?
“Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” (Jeremiah 32:26–27, NKJV) The LORD Declared Himself the God of all flesh. In John 10:35, Jesus said, “and the Scripture cannot be broken…”
“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. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1–4, NKJV) “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14, NKJV)
“If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”” (John 10:35–38, NKJV)
Christ Jesus was with God in the beginning and nothing was created without Him. He became flesh, and when He did, His Father became His God because Our LORD is the God of all flesh. Christ Jesus is the Son of God by relationship and birth. Those who put their faith in Him receive sonship through adoption which is made possible by the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit. The glory that Christ Jesus always shared with The Father (from before God Our Father, The Son and Holy Spirit created the universe), He temporarily set off to become flesh and serve the will of The Father even to the point of death on the cross. But Our God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name that is above all names. He shares the glory of the Godhead once again.
And He shares that glory with you and with me. Praise God! Read John 17:20-26.