God Became Man

God became man and lived among us. What a tremendous truth! The eternal Son of God came as a dependent child into this world and learned about human limitations and weaknesses from His own experience. Tiredness, exhaustion, hunger, thirst, and loneliness are things that He Himself had never experienced before. In the desert He fasted for 40 days and suffered hunger; on the cross He hung in unimaginable suffering and said, “I thirst.” Exhausted, He sat at the well in Sychar after a long journey on foot.

Although the storm raged and high waves battered the ship, He was fast asleep as He crossed the lake with His disciples. Shortly before His death, He looked back once more and said, “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.” (Ps. 22:9–10). “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46) were His last words as He hung dying on the cross.

Strength in Weakness

Weakness is not an obstacle for God to use us. On the contrary. God’s power is made perfect in weakness (see 2 Cor. 12:9)! The Lord Jesus was crucified in weakness (see 2 Cor. 13:4). While on the cross suffering terrible pain, He said, “I am a man who has no strength” (Ps. 88:4), He accomplished the greatest work of His life! It is wonderful that there is now a glorified Man in heaven who, because of His own experience, can understand us 100% in our weaknesses, and has compassion on us (see Heb. 4:15).

Dependence in the life of Jesus is particularly evident in the three points already mentioned at the beginning, which are also of central importance for us, and which we will deal with more intensively in what follows in the rest of these articles:

• Dependence in prayer
• Dependence on the Holy Spirit
• Dependence on the Word of God

How should the consciousness of your weakness cause a change in you? Are you aware that you are cast upon God and depend upon Him daily? How does considering that there is Someone in heaven who truly understands you and has complete compassion for your weaknesses affect your daily life?