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NASB | Luke 22:42 saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 22:42 saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup [of divine wrath] from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done." |
Subject: Not my will, but Yours be done... |
Bible Note: Hi, Joe; Thanks. Combining your comments with what I said earlier, I had another thought. This isn't theology; it's just a human trying to get his mind around Christmas. In the beginning, the Triune God was what he was - three persons in one in perfect harmony. Then God created humanity. Creation was a one-way act; God was still God but humans were something new. He lost nothing of himself by imbuing us with his spiritual nature. Then the first Christmas came and Jesus "stepped over the stars to Bethlehem and Jerusalem." Is not Jesus changed forever by becoming fully human? Are not the other two, God the Father and the Holy Spirit, changed as well? What love! The Creator has traversed creation in the opposite direction. He has incorporated his creation into himself. As a Christian, I think of God bestowing a part of his own nature on humanity. As a woodworker and computer geek, I think of "putting myself" into my work, making it uniquely my own. Now I realize that when I complete a project, it also becomes part of me - lessons learned, satisfaction received, the experience of creating. Before Creation, before there was any matter, God was infinite spirit. But now God has a finite, nail-scarred body. God entered time and space as a baby. He returned bodily to Heaven, bringing time and space with him. And by that act, he brings us, creatures of time and space, with him. "Praise Him in the heavens. Praise him in the stable. Praise Him in my heart." Peace and grace Steve aka Indiana Jones (quotes from Joseph Bayley's "Psalms of My Life", "A Psalm for Christmas Eve") |