What God Is Trying To Do In Us

Think of the marvel of Christ in Pilate’s hall and before the High Priest. 

Spat upon, mocked, struck, in every way degraded...and He is Almighty and Infinite God incarnate Who, with the parting of His lips, the silent lifting of His hand, could have smitten that crowd out of existence!

The centurion was right; when he saw what had happened he was filled with fear and said, ‘Truly this was the Son of God.’ 

We have heard of people suddenly discovering their awful mistake and dying of heart failure on the spot.

Think of the shock that has to come yet to those who treated Him as He was treated - when they see Him.

You can understand something of what took place in Saul of Tarsus (who knew all about what had happened in Jerusalem) when he saw Him - “I am Jesus” - saw Him in a brightness above that of the noonday sun.

But my point is this, He accepted and endured all that, going through to the bitter end, letting them hammer nails through His hands and feet and fix Him to the Cross, with all the deriding - “He saved others; himself he cannot save… Let (God) deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.” 

And He did not stir a finger or utter a word when twelve legions of angels were standing ready for His aid. 

(If one angel could smite the host of Sennacherib, what would twelve legions do?) 

That is meekness and lowliness of heart, and that is what God is trying to effect in us. 

That is the thought of God; that is going to be glory in God’s universe; that will make a world worth living in, and a universe of that nature will be bearable.

God thus works in us in these words - “I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

~T. Austin Sparks~