Who is like the Lord our God—the one enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? —Psalm 113:5–6
Father Damien was a priest in the 1800s who lived in a village of lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. He served them for sixteen years, willingly drawing himself into their lives.
Then one day he began his sermon by referring to “we lepers.” No longer was he merely living among them; he now shared their diagnosis. He would live as they lived and die as they died.
This is only a glimpse of what Jesus has done for us—humbling Himself to come and live among us in this sin-infected world, becoming as one of us.
This One so majestic that He must “stoop” even to gaze on the glories of heaven traveled into our meager existence, seeking our welfare at the expense of His own. How unthinkable, then, that we should ever resist His right to order our lives. We’ve been saved only because He saw fit to lower Himself so we might be set on high with Him.
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The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings ©2012 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Thank Jesus that He stepped across the gap to reconcile us to God and ask for a fresh sense of wonder at what this means.