"God's Splendor"

"For Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned Him with glory and honour." (Psalms 8:5) When we talk about the greatness of God, we have to consider all that was done to establish the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The birth alone was simply amazing; how God orchestrated every little detail, from the virgin that would bare Him, to the stable that He was to be born in; all the things that needed to take place for those things to happen, just as they happened, and just as they were said they would happen. You could simply spend hours, if not days, looking up all the prophecies and hints of His coming. I like one thing that I heard J. Vernon McGee say one day, in that he said the children of Israel were made to form in a particular formation as they marched through the wilderness; placing the tribe of Levy in the center, God instructed Moses to arrange the tribes at the east, west, north and south, in that it produced the formation of a cross as they marched through the wilderness. But we can go back even further, as we look at the curse given upon man, woman and the serpent, specifically between the serpent and Eve; whereas, God said, "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Genesis 3:14 & 15) Notice how God did not refer to man as He spoke of the seed of the woman; it was "her seed", being that the woman who would bring forth Jesus Christ was to be a virgin! And that the child to be born, would bruise the head of the serpent, yet the serpent would but bruise his heal; in other words, the serpent's head would be bruised, is a reference to the crushing that would take place of Satan's dominion and rule; yet the heel of Jesus being bruised, speaks of but a footprint, which signifies but a moment in time or stature. Looking at the life of Jesus, all thirty three years of His life was that of an underclass, in comparison to that which should be the life of a king: born of a virgin, which lead to being classified as a bastard by many; born in a stable, showing His humble introduction unto the world that He created; the flight to Egypt, giving Him the life of a fugitive from birth; being raised in Nazareth, a place of low reputation and honor; these things are just a few among hundreds of the ways that God orchestrated the very life that His Son would be brought into, suffer through, and die within. One thing that really gives me a chuckle, is the borrowed tomb; how it was that they needed to place Him in a borrowed tomb, and how it was, that He really only needed to use a tomb for only three days!!!