The Seed Blog: The Day Jesus Walked Out Of Heaven...

Mark 12:29-30: "HEART". Just as one might say, "That child is my whole heart!" This is how we are to see and love our God. And this is how our Jesus shows HIis love for God and for every one of us. The Advent passage we just heard—speaking of Jesus' moment of supernatural conception—shows the ultimate depth of Jesus loving God and His bride with all of his heart. There is a passage in Hebrews which is often misunderstood in the power of its context (the place and time) in which the words are expressed as having been spoken at the very moment we read about in Luke 1:35. What if I told you that just before Jesus leaves His throne, power and position—just before He sheds His divine power—to come to earth as a tiny, conceived child in Mary's womb. Scriptures actually reveal the very words He spoke to the Father: Hebrews 10:4-7. This is loving with all your heart.

Jesus did not come to earth to become humble; Jesus came to earth to show His humbleness and total devotion to the Father and us: Philippians 2:5-9. Jesus, Creator of all we know—Who is worshiped, loved, and reverenced above all; Who holds abilities and intelligence beyond comprehension; Who holds the power to destroy every atom of Creation on command; Who will one day have all of Creation stand before Him; Who is perfect love and holiness by His very nature—showed that His heart was not in any of these things. He gladly, willingly gave everything He had for no other reason than His humble love. Imagine your child or your spouse were found guilty of a terrible crime in a violent third world country, and the foreign leader said he would exchange them for you if you are willing. You give them every last dollar you have, walk away from your job, friends, and family, leave your own home for good and travel to this horrid, violent country to be locked away alone, in prison to be isolated until you die while mercilessly tortured and humiliated until dead; your whole life thrown away for something you didn't even do. Would it be safe to say that person you did all of this for was the love of your heart? What if you saw the President of the United States do this same thing for his child? Leave his Office of power, leave all of those under his authority in shock and disbelief; trade his honor and respect to be humiliated and ridiculed alone until dead. What if you saw the President of the United States do this not for his own child, but for one single, common person that didn't even know him personally [didn't even like him]. What if our Netanyahu did this for the exchange of one hostage with Hamas right now? Would you see the total disregard he had for his own life the incredible love and worth he truly placed on one soul? Now... multiply that a million times over and you get the crazy love and sacrifice of Jesus. He has loved us with His whole heart beyond comprehension; proving this to us in that very moment that He chose to leave everything and be miraculously conceived on that night. Think about this: Satan—who saw the splendor, power, adoration of Jesus Christ—was willing to hurt anyone and everyone, willing to bring chaos and destruction to all of creation, willing to bring torture and death to every living creature on earth, willing to make the worth of every soul nothing in his eyes, seeing us all as detestable, usable, and expendable—to attain all of the very power and worship that Jesus was willing to simply give away as nothing to him because of the worth He places on you. In that m, Jesus' heart was completely revealed.
Jesus "Emptied" Himself of all of His omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence as a human and did all that He did on earth relying upon the Father and the Spirit to accomplish all that He did. But He was still all God in the sense that He still held the love and humility—which is the essence of who He is—when all else is stripped away, the true man is revealed for who He is.
With all of this in mind, contemplate with me for a moment some of the events in Jesus' earthly life. Jesus came with the paramount mission of saving all of mankind. He came with the mission of revealing the true Word of God. He came to silence rulers, erase sin, and make all things new. And with all of this on His shoulders—all of these tasks and responsibilities, above every creature—watch where His heart of love is as He walks. This mighty judge and ruler of the Great White Throne over countless millions, walked many miles into a land of people who despised Him to find one forgotten, lost, broken, sinful woman whom the world had thrown away (John 4) to reveal Himself, His love, her worth and share a cup of water with her. As He shared a drink of Living Water for eternity, not judging her, but touching her soul—because in all of His majestic, important plans, He still saw and loved her. In the middle of His great and powerful mission, Jesus secretly came to a man who had been crippled for 38years because of his own sins (John 5), and then after lovingly touching this man's body and life, after being touched with compassion for this one, broken nobody, He slipped away humbly and quietly. Jesus, while sitting in the house of a very prominent leader who could give Him much exposure and success (Luke 7:36-50) set His eyes and heart on one woman who had lost her way in the world, who was isolated from everyone else in the room and had no hope of love or respect ever again, who could offer Him nothing in return except more rejection and misery from others around Him. Jesus praised her, lifted her up in front of all, rather than care about reputation, power or image. Her soul, her worth to Him was His single focus, His whole heart in that moment. Jesus comes across one deaf man who could not speak (Mark 7:31-37), and takes him away privately from everyone else. There—not for popularity, or show of power—but simply out of great love for this one broken soul, Jesus touches and heals Him intimately. Jesus groaned from His heart as He healed the man, because Jesus' heart burned f or this one forgotten soul. And lastly, there in the Garden of Gethsemane, and even at the Cross of His ultimate shame and death: Luke 22:49-51. The awesome and mighty Judge of the White Throne of Whom will melt away the elements and judge all, stops to heal the ear of one Temple soldier—a nobody in his culture, an enemy—because Jesus loved even Him with all of His heart—thinking of him, his worth, his pain—as he led Him to death: Luke 23:33-34. The very men who drove iron spikes through His wrists and hung Him naked to die as they mocked Him and gambled heard Jesus beg the Father on their behalf for their forgiveness because even they were the love of His heart. This is the creator of worlds, the destroyer of worlds. This is the great and dreadful judge that none can stand in the presence of. When you finally realize this; when you finally put together the pieces in your own mind that none of this awesome, majestic power is why He is to be loved and worshiped. But that this mighty, unstoppable, fierce God could make you the love of His heart and give all to touch your soul. At the end of His last private prayer with the Father, listen to His final Words of passion: John 17:24. How can you say no to His offer to be forgiven and spend eternity with Him? How can you not give this same worth to others who are just as undeserving as you? How can you not be willing to love Him with all of your heart as well; make Him the center of why you exist in return? He is truly worthy because He loves with all of His heart: Revelation 5:11-13. This incredible heart of love was first revealed when this magnificent God forsook everything  and stepped into our world on the night of His conception: Luke 1:35. Let's give Him our thanks; let's give Him our praise and worship; let's give Him love with all of our hearts in return.