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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Humanity in the Midst of Divinity is seen in "I Thirst" John 19:28-29




Humanity in the Midst of Divinity John 19-28-29
28 Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A bowl was there, full of cheap wine; so a sponge was soaked in the wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted up to his lips. 30 Jesus drank the wine and said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jesus was not only fully Divine that He saw Andrew under the Tree. He is also fully human that He said,” I am thirsty,” after 6 hours of hanging on the Cross! He is not a God far removed from our Pain and suffering, but He is with us knowing the pain and suffering we experience in our human limitations; because He experienced such Human limitations and frailty, pain and suffering all at once as He endured the pain and suffering on the Cross, despising its Shame! Just as Moses experienced the glory of God in the midst of the burning bush; God was in the midst of the burning bush, He was not far removed from it. He was in the midst of Israel’s pain and suffering when He called Moses to lead His people out of the bondage of Egypt. Even so, Jesus’ Pain was central in His body as He suffered on the cross, after 6 hours! Did He then say, “I am Thirsty”—He truly emptied Himself of all His life to be the source and ever quenching fountain of Eternal life to all who would believe on Him! Just think, the everlasting fountain of life, was emptied of life and thirsted on the cross, in order to become the source of Everlasting life for all who would believe on Him—He was emptied of His own human resource, that His body had need for Hydration, but in His Divine Nature is He ever the everlasting fountain of life to all who would believe on Him!
Shawn Brix on April 12, 2011, Writes in today’s Devotional, concerning Christ’s Humanity and Divinity on the Cross:
In this statement Jesus expressed a need so human that anyone could have said it: “I am thirsty.” Of all the needs of the human body, water is one of the most basic. More than 60 percent of the human body is water! As we become dehydrated, our blood vessels and other cells literally begin to dry up.
By the time Jesus spoke these words from the cross, he had already been hanging there for more than six hours, and his body was becoming parched. Foreshadowing this moment, Psalm 22:15 says, “My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.”
A bruised, beaten man nailed to a cross and murmuring through cracked lips, “I am thirsty,” is not what most of us picture when we think of God. But these details remind us of a great truth. At the center of the Christian faith is not a remote and distant God who lives beyond human pain. At the core of our faith is a person who is not only fully divine but is also fully human— indeed, human enough to be thirsty.
“I am thirsty.” These words remind us that “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14).

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