The WHY QUESTION

IT IS of the Lord’s heart that He sent salvation as He did. Jesus said He could call for legions of angels, yet instead, at age 33, He chose to submit to death on the cross. Why all the pomp and circumstance of the Law? Why a glorious temple that would be torn down and rebuilt and torn down? Those who’d seen Solomon’s temple wept to see it in Ezra’s day (Ezra 3:12). It was far less. Come Jesus’ day, the day of Pharisaical ineptitude, the Presence of God, the Holy Spirit, was not there at all but lived in the man, Christ. They were aware of this yet couldn’t see Him. And were angry instead. Anger which ends in murder is devilish.

I think of a man in his 30s giving his life and cannot but see my daughter. She is of that age. We see Jesus depicted older and younger in artwork. His actual age today isn’t known, but my grandfather saw him in a vision he described to the family one holiday, and he said Jesus was the most beautiful man. This isn’t something he would say of others. That makes it huge in my mind’s eye. Still, Jesus was only 33, yet the Father considered Him mature. These are the words spoken from heaven over Him on several occasions. “Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Mark 1:11).”

Jesus shone the Father’s heart in glorious colors. He was His Words and Works on the earth (John 14:10). He is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15). Not a physical depiction, although this is true, but a spiritual one. He looks like His Father. Why wouldn’t He? But He thinks like Him and is perfectly united to Him. The apostle Paul tells us this in several places, but Jesus said this to His disciples. “And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me (John 16:32).” Though they would scatter, and He would hang, accused, on the cross, the Father and the Spirit of the Him (Romans 8:11) would be in Him. Men have put Him on the cross to be tormented of the devil, and nothing is further from the Truth of the Gospel. If Jesus came to heal all those oppressed of the devil, Acts 10:38, and He destroyed all the works of the devil and captured the keys of hell and the grave, 1 John 3:8 and Revelation 1:8, then there is no chance a loving Father, who gave the redeeming sacrifice in His Son, would bow to that loser.

He could have wiped the devil from the earth the second he fell. But revenge is not in Him. He has no darkness or hatred, just holiness to cleanse all things. His wrath is over, being beneath the shed blood of Christ. Understand please, that “Christ” is Father, Son, and Spirit. THEY ARE CHRIST. The church is THEIR BRIDE, not Jesus’ alone. The marriage supper is OF THE LAMB, the Sacrifice which was given on the Father’s behalf. For Jesus to inherit as the Son, the Father had to die, and He did die symbolically in Christ. Jesus is the Firstborn of many brethren. I like how Minister Dutch Sheets spoke of this. “If I can be the Bride, then you (ladies) can be sons,” he said in his deep voice. My point is, in all of this, that the WHY QUESTION asked frequently is only answered when you know Them.

Just as I know my husband, what he will and won’t do, how he will respond to things and how he won’t, I know my Savior, a word also filled by Father, Son, and Spirit. Though Jesus lived on earth, and He is glorified humanity, He can never, and could never, be separated from the Father and the Spirit. Never. I beg of you to read this post and meditate on it. The Spirit wants to do a new work in the church. He longs to shake us out of our language stupor and the doctrines written by men and for us to walk in His Presence, filled with His anointing, all day, every single day. We are IN CHRIST all the time. It isn’t on occasion nor when we are in worship and prayer, nor is some glory-experience necessary. There is a song by Bethel Music which says the Presence of God is washing dishes. This may seem odd to you, but to me it isn’t. When I decided to make my loving Father, Jesus the Savior, and the Holy Spirit, real to me, they spoke. Not as a unit, in one mystical voice, but separate. The Holy Spirit is the conduit, but They each are an individual who longs to be with us.

Jesus told us this in John 17. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me (John 17:20-21).” And backing up to John 14, He said to His disciples He would sent “another Comforter.” The word “another” there means “of the same kind.” That Comforter is the Holy Spirit, who is as individual as the Father and Jesus. He speaks on His own but is perfectly united to Them so it is never solely His words absent of Them. Their heart was us. They did what they did so that we can be united to them, fulfilled through them, and protected and healed and blessed. There was no other way to salvation in Their nature except to give up Themselves to Their own hurt so that we could reap the benefits.

“But he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.” (Psalms 15:4)

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

Manger Photo by Jon Carlson on Unsplash
Cross Photo by Ismael Paramo on Unsplash


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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