Saturday, September 20, 2008

Did Christ know who he was?

I've always wondered how evident it was to Christ that he was indeed divine, that He was the very Son of God. There is one expression He used that comes to mind and it boldly gives us an affirmative answer. He knew who He was. In a world where status meant everything, Christ says in Matthew 10, "And whoever gives to one of these least ones even a cup of cold water for my sake shall receive it again tenfold."

This is another example of God's love toward man. In I John 3 we read, "He who sees his brother in need, yet shuts his heart," this person at the same time shuts God out. Love to God and love to neighbor are like two doors that open simultaneously, so that it's impossible to open one without opening the other, and impossible to shut one without also shutting the other.

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