"God's Splendor" -2

"For Thou hast made Him a little lower that the angels, and hast crowned Him with glory and honour." (Psalms 8:5) I'm not quite through with this verse yet! In making our Lord become as one of us; this is how He could be classified as "a little lower than the angels"; not that He was not God in the flesh, but that He humbled Himself to become flesh, making Him a lower class than that of the angels, for just that short period that He dwelt in the flesh. And yet, for those days in which He dwelt among us, He demonstrated power beyond that of mortal man; yet restricted Himself to be humbled in the form which He dwelt in. A good example of what I am talking about, would be when Jesus was tempted by the devil after He fasted for forty days in the wilderness. In that tempting, Satan asked, If you are the Son of God, then cast yourself off this cliff, or turn these stones to bread; with which Jesus replied by quoting Scripture which was meant for man to walk in obedience unto God; thereby giving a written reason as to why He should not do what Satan had asked Him to do. It was not that He could not do those things, because He demonstrated by turning water to wine and by walking on water that He could, but rather, He remained humble to that which He came as, and to that which He came to do. He showed forth His power on many occasions; giving us proof of who He was and the power that He had over nature, demons, the sick, the blind, the deaf, the lame, and even the dead. He also knew what was in men's heart, as He confronted them on many different issues. But when it came to His death upon the cross, and even to the suffering that He took from those that crucified Him, He humbled Himself to that shame and torture, even though He could have stopped it at any time that He would have wanted to! The way I see it, He demonstrated more power in His humility, then He did in His strength; because, in so doing, He showed us the power of His love for the Father, and for that which needed to be done on our behalf!!! Even though He had the power to stop all of the punishment at anytime, He endured the harshness of the beatings, the humiliation of the mockery, and the torturous death; which took far more strength to resist stopping it, because He defiantly had the power to do any of a number of things which would have caused them to stop. It was in this manner of His actions, which Paul wrote in Philippians, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:5-11)