PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Luke 3:21-38
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:22)
I used to think that these words referred to Jesus as the eternal son of God.
This is part of the theology of the trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I do believe that Jesus is God with us, the Word made human.
But I now see these words as describing what kind of human Jesus was.
Luke finishes the human genealogy by connecting him to Adam.
Jesus… “the son of Adam, the son of God.” (Luke 3:38)
As Adam was the son of God, Jesus was the son of God.
We are all sons and daughters of God, but not in a well-pleasing way.
We have become rebellious children, ruining God’s home and family.
God sends Jesus to live the Adam life as it was meant to be lived.
Humble, gracious, loving, faithful – a well-pleasing son.
This world is once again ruled by a well-pleasing son of Adam, son of God!
And by surrendering to Jesus, we are restored and renewed as God’s children.
God sees us, with Jesus, as his well-pleasing children.
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for reclaiming our family and home, and for renewing me as God’s much-loved child. Help me to live with, like and for you as a faithful son of Adam.
Knowing who Jesus is the son of – is everything. Most of all He is the son of God. I’m grateful that Luke recorded this for us and he ends up with the ‘Son of God’. I remember my Father well and less so my Pake and Opa – beyond that I can only read names of ancestors and sometimes learn a little of what they did for a few of them. But my origin is also of God – as a member of the human race – the image bearers of God. And Jesus says that I may be part of his family – his child. I treasure that. He didn’t need the baptism but He took it and it was a sign that He really is one of us – though he is also the son of God. Thinking of it though I realized that my origins are also of God. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit – you are welcome in my heart!
Jesus was baptized as those who accepted the repentance of the sins. He was human but not need the baptism even as John said that he needed to be baptized by Jesus. But as Jesus was proclaimed by God that Jesus was His Son and well pleased, we too are sons and daughter of God – God’s children. And our living for Him pleases God. That is my task to live for Him as His child, obeying His commands. All for Jesus and that is a possibility in Christ alone. Help me Lord to live each day for You in all I do and say.
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My comforter, my all in all
Here, in the love of Christ, I stand