Day 20: Jesus Was Fully Human

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

»  Jesus experienced every single temptation that you experience. How does this encourage and help you?

»  Because of Jesus, you can approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, to receive mercy and and grace to help you in your time of need. Do that, boldly, for a few minutes right now.

»  Make these confessions: 1) Jesus knows my human struggles. 2) Jesus overcame my human struggles. 3) I can overcome my struggles today in Jesus.

»  Practice the memory verse.

QUOTE

“What we see in Jesus is true humanity. What we see in his incarnation, his earthly life and ministry, is what humanity was meant to be, what Adam was created to be but ruined in his sin and his fall.”

- Thabiti Anyabwile

SCRIPTURE

“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” - Philippians 2:6-7

DEVOTIONAL

We say, “to err is human,” but we are wrong. Sin, selfishness, hate, jealousy, and every vile thing we know in our world is not what it is to be human; they are what it is to be a broken human. And broken humans are the only kind we know.

Until Jesus comes along.

The eternal and perfect Word, seeing that in no other way could our corruption be undone - and because, being immortal, it was impossible for Him to suffer death - takes for Himself a human body capable of death. He fills that body with Himself, making it worthy to die in the place of all. And, because of He who dwells in it, it remains incorruptible. That way, and forever, corruption can be pushed away from all by the sacrifice and resurrection of the Son of Man.

Immortal God takes on mortal flesh to be our perfect and only High Priest. The truest human; a second Adam.

“Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.”

- Hebrews 2:14-15; 17-18)

“Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” - Hebrews 4:14-16