Today’s reading is Psalm 136.
Jesus Christ is God’s Steadfast Love
YHWH created the world alone. That is, no other separate being, divine or otherwise created the world. Certainly, He was equipped with wisdom and understanding, but wisdom is not divine. Wisdom is not a personal entity. Wisdom was the “mental” tool God used. However, John 1:1-5 draws out a conclusion.
YHWH created the world, but He did it through His “logos.” That is, He did it through His “Word.” John, however, demonstrates this “logos,” was more than simply God’s accompanying wisdom. This “logos” was with God, but also was God. Not was another god, but was/is God. I get it, trinity is a mystery. We can’t mine its depths in a simple daily blog devotional. Yet, John wants us to understand something.
Jesus is God. Jesus is the Creator. He is YHWH. He was with God. He is God. Jesus is not a second God. He is the same God. In other words, God is so far beyond our ability to comprehend, even trying to describe the nature of His existence goes beyond our ability to communicate. He must resort to presenting Himself in Oneness and in Threeness at the same time. But what we must know is the LORD whose steadfast love created the world is Jesus.
Unsurprisingly, the LORD whose steadfast love delivered Israel from bondage, led them through the wilderness, and conquered kingdoms before them is Jesus. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, the Rock which followed Israel through the wilderness and brought the nation into the Promised Land was Christ. It was Jesus.
This same Jesus came in flesh and tabernacled among us. He died on the cross to atone for our sins and cleanse our defilement away.
Let us give thanks to the Lord. Let us give thanks to Jesus. Because He Himself is the embodiment of chesed. He Himself is the God of chesed. His death on the cross is the ultimate demonstration of loyalty to every covenant the Lord made. And just as He created the world in covenant loyalty before any people had entered into covenant with Him, He planned the sacrifice of Jesus before the foundation of the world. Yet, that very steadfast love endures to us and will keep forgiving people for all time.
Praise the Lord! …for His steadfast love endures forever!
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