While I was walking Trent to school today, I asked him to tell me a story, any story… He started talking about swords of course, and Joseph(?-he’s 4, he mixes stories),and then stated the most brilliant truth: “and Jesus didn’t save himself”. As far as I know, he was remembering Jesus being betrayed/arrested. Which was an amazing reminder to me from my son..
The scoffers screamed to Jesus ‘come down off that cross’…
Peter rebuked him, saying, ‘Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.’
Only Jesus would say ‘But for this purpose I have come…’
The world’s response is ‘save yourself’. Christ’s initiation is ‘I came to save’.
(Matthew 26:53-54 “Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”)
