“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.” (1 John 3:16, NIV) Before the beginning of the world, the Father and the Son always existed in Perfect Love. But when Jesus came to earth, something was added to His divine nature of Love: the sinless human nature of man. Why? So that we - as fallen human beings - would be made capable of receiving His love and be restored to Him. The Father glorified the Son and made known His true nature and identity by restoring the Son to His rightful place in the presence of His unveiled glory in heaven, but Jesus would have to go through the cross first. Jesus, while always maintaining His divine nature, “emptied Himself” and became a Man made of flesh and blood, like us in every respect, yet without sin, so that He could be our Lamb of God. He was born to die! The cross would be the means by which God would glorify His Son. As Jesus returned to heaven, God would say, “Mission accomplished! Well done, My Righteous Son, My Good and Faithful Servant!” The Son would also glorify the Father through the cross by displaying God’s great sacrifice in giving His Son, His only Son, the Son that He loved for us. The Father’s nature of Perfect Love would be demonstrated. To reconcile us to God, Jesus became fully God and fully man. Jesus, our Mediator, is the full expression of the love of God for mankind! As the “God-Man” He is still our Intercessor in heaven. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
