We are in the midst of a beautiful stretch of Autumn days. Darling Hill is slightly too high in elevation to get hit with the first frosts, but this morning, just down on Mud Lane, there were the white fields. The first frost of the season.
Our Lord's Day was a blessing, with good fellowship and good Bible teaching. I was saddened to know that someone had misunderstood one of the recent blogposts and surely want to set it all straight. The post was entitled
Knowledge Too Wonderful and was about the amazing, almost impossible to understand, concept of Jesus Christ being fully God and fully man. I believe that I "think out loud" too often when I write on the blog. Our Lord is so DEEP and I try to dig down, perhaps too much at times, to even begin to grasp the understanding.
The misunderstanding was that I may have been questioning that Jesus Christ could SIN. NEVER, NEVER, have I thought that Jesus could sin. Even as a young, baby Christian I knew that Jesus could never have sinned, as He is GOD in the flesh. I think that this is the section where the misunderstanding may have come. I will paste it here. I think that it was poor word choices (in red) that led someone to think I may have suggested such a heretical thing as Jesus being able to sin:
"Can you even begin to understand what it meant for Jesus Christ to be both God AND Man? I find that the more I think on it, the less I understand it...but yet, the more I BELIEVE and recognize it! In reading the gospels, we see Jesus spending entire nights in prayer to His Father. He and His Father were ONE, yet the Man, Christ, spent long periods in prayer; resisting temptation perhaps, committing His thoughts and ministry to God, pouring out His cares concerning the onslaughts of wicked people around Him. These are all speculation of course. All I know is that He shared with His disciples that they should, "watch, that ye enter not into temptation." Jesus Christ certainly was the single-best example of going to God in prayer!"
Just one other section to quote:
"The children and I shared these thoughts; that Jesus could NOT have sinned because He was God; that Jesus was tempted in all the same points as we were, without sinning; and I shared that Jesus, as a Man, also CHOSE not to sin against His holy Father. How do you ever conclude such thoughts and really get them settled in the heart? We decided that we just won't fully understand the God/man until we get to Heaven."
I am sorry for choosing to use the word "resisting". I can't begin to understand what it meant when the Bible says that Jesus was "tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin". Of course He could not have sinned, He was GOD! I also can't know why God made Jesus a man/God person, or how that was even possible. I do certainly know though, that as a man, Jesus also chose not to sin.
These are truly "musings" on these deep thoughts of God. PLEASE never think of this blog as a teaching-tool. I am certainly no Bible teacher. The blogposts are simply "musings on the Hill" and I would never want to pass any of it on as "teachings". As I read fellow-bloggers posts I promise not to take any of your writings as anything more than you sharing your heart with fellow-readers.
Being able to share things of the heart, even with people whom I do not know, just being able to write them down, helps to bring thoughts together for me. I suppose some would think of them as "fair speeches" or flowery words, but God has made words very special to me and I love writing things out; to be read again someday. I hope that if any of them can be even a small blessing to anyone, that they will be just that, a blessing. I would not want you to take any of it as "gospel". Only the Word of God can be taken in that way.
Thank you for reading and "listening" and for knowing (hopefully, now) that the last thing I would want to convey is that our holy Lord Jesus Christ could ever sin.
