"He is God, even with the Father as anent the Godhead. But in His foreseeing purpose that He would be Man, to save man in fulfilling of His Father's will, so He stood afore His Father as a Servant, willingly taking upon Him all our charge. And then He started full readily at the Father's will, and anon He fell full low, into the Maiden's womb, having no regard to Himself nor to His hard pains."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 51)
Why would He do it? Why would He, the Son of God who was equal to God and truly God Himself, give up all the privileges and rights associated with His divinity and take on the form of a servant, humbling Himself to become weak human flesh? Why would He submit to the pain, sorrow, suffering and death that came with His becoming human? Why? It was all for love! Christ was ready and eager to go do this work of saving humanity. He desired to go, He wanted to go. He willingly took up our cause, the cause of the lost and helpless ones, the failures and the ruined ones. He was ready to go, and ran to go complete the task with eagerness and vigor. He took on all our situation, bore all the pains that came with being human, even to the point of dying at the hands of the very ones He came to save, giving of Himself completely, giving all that He had to give. Yet He had no regard to Himself. He only thought of us! That's what love is, that's what God is! Unconditional, selfless, other-centered love, always pouring itself out for us, no matter what! And that is the only way He is. He is only love and nothing else, and the Cross stands for all time to prove that is true!
"His being God's equal in form and likeness was official....His mission, however, was not to prove his deity but to embrace our humanity. He emptied himself into a physical human form; born in our resemblance, he identified himself as the servant of the human race. His love enslaved him to us! And so we have the drama of the cross in context: the man Jesus Christ who is fully God, becomes fully man to the extent of willingly dying humanity’s death at the hands of his own creation. He embraced the curse and shame of the lowest kind in dying a criminal’s death."
Philippians 2:6-8 (MIRROR)
A Prayer: Thank You for all the love You have for me, all the love You have shown me. Thank You for going through all You did to save me!