I am great because of His Gentleness Written by D. Jonathan Fourie
2Sa 22:36 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your condescension and gentleness have made me great.
Psa 18:35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand has held me up; Your gentleness and condescension have made me great.
In this text we notice that God have behavior or an example of behavior that implies that somebody is graciously lowering himself to the level of people less important or intelligent. In this the meaning implies that God has emptied (condescension or kḗ-nō´sis: The word “kenosis” (κένωσις, kénōsis) has entered theological language from Phi_2:7, where in the sentence he “emptied himself” the Greek verb is ekénōsen. “Kenosis,” then, the corresponding noun, has become a technical term for the humiliation of the Son in the incarnation, but in recent years has acquired a still more technical sense, i.e. of the Son's emptying Himself of certain attributes, especially of omniscience.) Himself for and on behalf of us. And as a result of that I am made great.
Our inheritance of wealth, the spoils of the enemy, is not because of what we have done, but because of His mercy and His grace and His loving-kindness. He has emptied Himself so that we can be filled with Him, He became poor so that we can be rich.
Our minds by nature have difficulty in accepting that Christ has done all and everything for us. There is nothing more that we can do to add to it but to accept the price that was paid. He has pored Himself out, His whole intension was that we should have what is His.
It is like the prodigal son, the oldest one, when the father prepared the calf for the younger’s one home coming. He was upset and angry because his father has never gave him a calf to enjoy with his friend. Then the father said to him, but all that is mine is yours. Yet the oldest never understood this. And so are we today, we still don’t understand that everything is already ours.
Our wealth lays in what we receive and accept in faith not in what we can do or achieve. Our wealth is under foot, right in front of us – just accept it. Our salvation, the mere fact that we have accepted His grace, has shielded us and made us great. Written by D. Jonathan Fourie
2Sa 22:36 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your condescension and gentleness have made me great.
Psa 18:35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand has held me up; Your gentleness and condescension have made me great.
In this text we notice that God have behavior or an example of behavior that implies that somebody is graciously lowering himself to the level of people less important or intelligent. In this the meaning implies that God has emptied (condescension or kḗ-nō´sis: The word “kenosis” (κένωσις, kénōsis) has entered theological language from Phi_2:7, where in the sentence he “emptied himself” the Greek verb is ekénōsen. “Kenosis,” then, the corresponding noun, has become a technical term for the humiliation of the Son in the incarnation, but in recent years has acquired a still more technical sense, i.e. of the Son's emptying Himself of certain attributes, especially of omniscience.) Himself for and on behalf of us. And as a result of that I am made great.
Our inheritance of wealth, the spoils of the enemy, is not because of what we have done, but because of His mercy and His grace and His loving-kindness. He has emptied Himself so that we can be filled with Him, He became poor so that we can be rich.
Our minds by nature have difficulty in accepting that Christ has done all and everything for us. There is nothing more that we can do to add to it but to accept the price that was paid. He has pored Himself out, His whole intension was that we should have what is His.
It is like the prodigal son, the oldest one, when the father prepared the calf for the younger’s one home coming. He was upset and angry because his father has never gave him a calf to enjoy with his friend. Then the father said to him, but all that is mine is yours. Yet the oldest never understood this. And so are we today, we still don’t understand that everything is already ours.
Our wealth lays in what we receive and accept in faith not in what we can do or achieve. Our wealth is under foot, right in front of us – just accept it. Our salvation, the mere fact that we have accepted His grace, has shielded us and made us great. Written by D. Jonathan Fourie
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