We’re in the middle of a series based on the chorus of the song “Heaven came down.” We’re using the phrase found in the song, when at the Cross, as the launching point for each devotional. We noticed first how, thanks to the Cross we can be made whole, and that desire people have to find the answers to the questions of life can be satisfied by the salvation which Jesus offers.
On Tuesday we noticed how thanks to the blood of Jesus shed at the Cross, we can have our sins washed away. Yesterday we considered how, thanks to the cross, our night can be turned to day.
Today we look at how it was that our Savior came to be on the Cross in the first place.
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:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Philippians 2:5-8
We are saved, to put it poetically, because “Heaven came down.”
He came down: The King of Heaven, God Himself, became a man. He did not think His Spiritual, Heavenly state was something to selfishly hold on to (“robbery”). Instead He came down, but not to be paraded around town as royalty. No He made Himself into a Man of no reputation (people thought of Him little and when they did they thought little of Him).
He came down, not adorned in purple, with a ruby-studded crown on his head. No, He came as a carpenter’s son. He came as a servant of men. A washer of men’s feet at the last dinner of His life.
He came down, not dripping with arrogance or conceit. Instead He humbled Himself and though the prospect of death terrified Him (Luke writes that He prayed to God, being “in agony” which literally means “horror-struck”), He–being a Servant–obeyed.
He came down and obeyed even though obedience meant, not just death, but the death of the Cross. And because of His death, our salvation is made possible.
Aren’t you glad for the Cross? Aren’t you glad Heaven came down?
Have a great day!
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