Then Came Jesus!

Isaiah 50:2 "Wherefore,when I came,was there no man?When I called,was there none to answer?Is my hand shortened at all,that it cannot redeem?Or have I no power to deliever behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,I make the rivers a wilderness:Their fish stinketh because ther is no water,and dieth for thirst."

There was no one to take up the devine challenge:no one to answer for guilty man.To the call of God for one who could save,there was no answer but the echo of his voice.See who it is that comes to the rescue of man.Who is it that can make the sinner a saint,the unrighteous, righteous; the unholy, holy, and the old, a new.Is the Lords hand to short to save? Is there any in heaven or on earth worthy,is there no sacrifice perfect enough?When none other could do ,then came Jesus.

He comes in the fulness of power,His power to save is equal to his power to destroy.His power is that which produces the phenomena of nature,As by him all things were made and without him nothing made was made.Through Him the mysteries of the gospel are revealed. Behold him as the servant of the Lord,prepared by grace to be grace,shaped in mercy to be mercy,called a sacrifice to be sacrificed.Obedient to all things,the truth of God's word, the power of God' word, persevering through all trials,and standing through all tribulations and temptations.He is courageous,he is humble, he endured the shame of the cross that we might experience the glory of heaven.Behold him as our peerless sufferer;His entire submission,subsituting his will for that of the Fathers,"not my will ,but thy will be done";his willing submission, no man take his life, He laid it down willingly;his lowly submission, bearing the shame, as he was slapped,and spit on,by those he came to save; His patient submission,as he never said a mummling word; not a word of reproach, or resentment.Grace taught him effectually, and he suffered perfectly, the perfect sacrifice for an imperfect people.What an ability to save!

Man had fallen from grace ,the world judged him unfit to live, but God's love beheld him to precious to die.Having found that the blood of goats and bulls could not save man,God took the best of himself and wrapped it in the worst of mankind,that the worst of mankind might reveal the best of God.The son of God became the son of man ,that the sons of man might become the sons of God!I was lost with no hope,then came Jesus!