Our Lord’s Infinite Condescension - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

When He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me … Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’”

And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Hebrews 10:5–7 NKJV; Luke 2:7 NKJV

Our Lord’s Infinite Condescension
What God’s Word tells us of the condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ goes beyond our wildest imagination. He was and ever is the Son of the Father’s love, the One by whom and for whom all things were created and by whom all things subsist together (Col. 1:13–17). For Him to enter the womb of a human virgin, Mary, to grow there, and in due course to be born as a seemingly helpless Baby, while at the same time upholding all creation in its proper course, is a holy mystery we will never be able to fully understand, but which God has revealed to us in His Word.

Let us pause and worship as we think of how He who was rich beyond all measure became poor, so poor that His first bed on earth was a manger, a feed box for domestic animals. The parents to whom God entrusted His holy almighty Son were a poor virgin espoused to a lowly carpenter. There was no room for them in the inn in their ancestral city, Bethlehem, the city of King David!

Of course, Mary and Joseph did not hear Him speak the prophetic words of the passage in Hebrews 10 above, a quotation of Psalm 40. But we might call these words the motto of the Son of God spoken to God His Father upon entering this wretchedly sinful world. Indeed, this watchword characterized His entire life on earth. He walked humbly here, communing with His Father and doing His will. And He asks us to take His yoke upon us and learn of Him, the One who here was ever meek and lowly in heart, to find rest for our souls.

-- Eugene P. Vedder, Jr.