"The Word Became Flesh"

"Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the Book it is written of Me," (Psalms 40:7) Having come to the understanding of what Jesus came to do, we must realize how much of the Bible was written for His work that He did on that cross. Even little sections of Scripture that otherwise don't make a whole lot of sense, when looked at in light of the cross, they take on a whole new meaning. For example, the first seven verses of 2 Kings chapter six, which illustrate that Elisha had the power to make that iron ax head float in water; yet the power to float that ax head came from a piece of wood or a stick that was thrown unto the water, and then it was the stick that did make it float. I have shared on this before, but that iron ax head represents our sin; how that it was really not our fault that we are sinful, because we were born into sin, yet we are still responsible for reaching out to God for our salvation; and it is the cross of Christ that has made that salvation possible. Just as the young student prophet had borrowed the ax he was using, it was really not his fault that the tool was faulty, yet he was still obligated to return it; therefore, he cried out and said, "Alas, Master! for it was borrowed." But Elisha simply asked where it fell, almost as if he were asking for confession; for it is by confession of our sin, that we can receive the cleansing; and after the confession, the work of the cross is applied to our lives, just as the stick thrown on the water over where the ax head fell in caused the ax head to float. Then all that was need for restoration to take place is written in verse seven, as Elisha says, "Take it up to thee"; and the student prophet put out his hand, and took it. There is no work required; there is no price that we must pay; Jesus has completed whatever was needed to provide for our sins to be forgiven, and all that we need to do is to "Take it up to thee"; in other words, we only need to receive it! But that is just one of thousands of examples written for an illustration of God's redemption that is freely given to us; yet, when Jesus came, they rejected who He was, just as they rejected God's Word over and over again throughout the history of the Book... "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." (Acts 7:51-53)