Auto-biographical thoughts from my book Reclaiming Adoption about the profound power of the incarnation (#Advent) upon my personal fear, doubt, and despair that descended upon my in 2008: When that fear descended upon me in Ethiopia, I felt as if I had lost the very presence of God—the one thing that I needed most, the one thing without which I could not live. But when Jesus became man and entered into the far country, which is our estrangement from God, he was truly forsaken by God in my place without ceasing to be God for even a fraction of a moment. As the God-man, not only did Jesus become my obedience, my faith, my prayer, my love to the Father, my feelings of joy in the Father, but he also became my forsakenness—without ceasing to be God. He took up my cross, abandoned all, and “became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross (Philippians 2:8), and he did this for me, in my place. Not only did Jesus do for me what I cannot do for myself, he also did for his twelve disciples what they could not do for themselves, namely, offer the Father radical obedience. All of Jesus’ original disciples eventually turned away from him as he approached his crucifixion (Mark 14:50). The good news of the gospel is that Jesus took up our cross and obediently and wholeheartedly followed his Father to death for us and in our place without ever ceasing to be God (Reclaiming Adoption, p 46). #Advent #Hope
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:06:42 +0000
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