Fully Man Fully Divine

Have you ever wandered how something can be so amazing yet as simple as something you have seen before?.... What i mean is... have you ever met a perfect person and yet they were the same as you but you couldn't get on there level.  Well.... as i was reading in my bible the past couple of days.... Matthew 26 kept ringing in my ear.... 

As a Christian sometimes i think we get a false picture and mentality of our saviour Jesus Christ.  What i mean is.... often times when we speak of him... we speak of how holy, mighty and powerful he was and that he was without sin.... Well all that is 100 percent true.  Even though this may not seem interesting to some people.... it is to me.  When i say that we get a false mentality, i merely mean that we sometimes forget that he was as much divine as he was human.  

As Jesus was in Gethsemane, he was praying to his Father for guidance.  This passage stuck out to me because it paints a perfect picture of how human our saviour was.  He was under so much stress to the point to death, and yet he was praying that his decision would be that of his father's will.  No how many times, when faced with death, would we stand and take it?... yeah thats what i thought.  Christ knew that he had to face what would come to pass.... his crucifixion.  

However, a perfect place where we can see his human characteristics is in verse 39.  He says to his father, "may this cup pass from me..... but not as i will... but as you will"  Here we can see that Jesus was seeing all of our sin that he would suffer for and that he was under stress.  He was under stress and pain, yet he was mindful of his father's will.

I think if we look at this passage in perspective, we can relate this to our lives.  I think sometimes when we are faced with difficult decisions, we often take the easy way out or run.  I am guilty as charged when it comes to this.  However, how powerful would the body of christ be if we would just embrace challenges of faith.  How powerful would we be if we pray for a way over the mountain than for the mountain to be removed.  I read this passage daily just to see my saviour, human but divine, resist the option of refusing his father's will and make the choice of submitting to his father's plan.  As a Christian, it is easy for us to fall to temptation sometimes.  That is why i look to this passage for guidance.

We often wonder why we are susceptible to temptation.  Well, Jesus gives us a clear guide to prepare ourselves for when the time comes.  In verse 40, he says to Peter, "Watch and pray so that you do not fall into temptation".  If we were to have an answer to a math problem in front of us... and we could use it on the test... would we use it?... Of course.... So when it comes to the tests of life... why not use Christ's answer to temptation.  He warns us that our spirit is willing but our body is weak.  This proves that apart from Christ's spirit in us... we are without escape from evil.  

In conclusion, if we look at this passage for answers to struggles i can draw two solutions.

One, i say that if you are faced with struggles, then pray because your flesh is not capable of resisting the temptation.  And Two, understand that Christ was fully human and was faced with temptation just as we are, but he was 100 percent devoted to his father and his father in him.  This is the ultimate picture of how we are nothing without Christ.  Furthermore, we have another reason to worship a master that was fully human and without sin.  All this is not saying that we can live sin free, however, it is a guide to live righteously pursuing Christ when you are faced with trouble.  So remember that Christ saw you in that cup; he saw our sin, our doubts, and our evil ways.  However, he chose to take on our sin so that we would not be condemned.... What a Divine Man!