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This Week’s Devotional Topic
DESCRIPTIONS OF JESUS
When someone dies, it is common to look back upon their life and times. Take moments reflecting on what they were like, things they accomplished, some with happiness and laughter and some with sorrow, sadness or regret. As we think about Jesus, we are not just considering acts and character of someone who lived and died but this person that lives today and existed in the very beginning. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Then in John 1:14 we read that “…the Word was made 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. And then in Revelation we understand that Jesus will be in eternity future.
Jesus is God, the Son
John 3:16, 17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Jesus is the Holy One
Mark 1:23,24 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
He is the precious Lamb of God
John 1:26-29 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
A Man of sorrows
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life
John 11:23-26 Jesus saith unto her, thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Head of the church
Ephesians 5:22-23 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Jesus is our Savior
John 4:41-42 And many more believed because of his own word; and said unto the woman, now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
He is our Redeemer
Job 19:25,26 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Jesus is the Rock
I Corinthians 10:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
The Author and Finisher of our faith
Hebrews 12:1,2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
These have been just a few of the aspects of Christ, like snapshots, puzzle pieces of an infinitely larger picture. The God of creation, Jesus, our Lord and Savior is all of these things and so much more. He is all that we need and will ever need. Please join me in praise to Him.
This week’s Scripture:
John 1:14; 26-29; 3:16,17; 4:41,24; 11:23-26; 14:6; Galatians 4:4; Mark 1:23,24; Isaiah 53:3; Ephesians 5:22,23; Job 19:25,26; I Corinthians 10:1-4 and Hebrews 12:1,2
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