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Among the people of the Bible who struggled with God, there was also the Lord Jesus His fight (fight if it is), however, was very different from that of any other biblical character, which we have spoken up now. The struggles of these men were determined by their rebellion, feelings of inadequacy or weakness, refusal to submit to God, fear. The struggle of the Lord, however, was ironically caused by his obedience.
From all eternity, God knew that man would sin and would have rebelled against disobeying Him. From all eternity God has planned the salvation of humanity.
The disobedience of Adam and Eve took him by surprise and the coming of Christ, his incarnation, were not a patch to rectify the sin of the moment. Jesus, as the Apostle Peter, "was the lamb without blemish and without spot, already chosen before the creation of the world" intended to shed his blood and to give His life to redeem humanity lost and without hope.
From all eternity the Son of God knew that at some point in history, "in the fullness of time" , as the apostle Paul called it, would incarnate to accomplish the work of salvation .
In the letter to the Philippians (2:5-8) This is described in a sublime way. "Jesus Christ, being in very nature God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped" (the Lord Jesus came to earth to a decision of his mind and following the divine plan agreed by the Trinity from all over eternity), but emptied himself (renounced his powers) taking form of a servant (slave) , becoming like men (incarnated as a man) , found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross (His life was perfect, lived for the good of others, to the ultimate sacrifice).
His atoning sacrifice, the hours when it is loaded on the cross for all sins ever committed by men, but involved an awful: separation from God the Father, whose eyes are too pure to contemplate the sin. Jesus for me and you and every man "was made sin" . It is not as dead as a hero who is sacrificed for the good of the nation or humanity, admired by all, but as a criminal, abandoned by God
That Jesus in his humanity, he did horror. Jesus loved all people until the end, but the separation from God has filled with anxiety. In the Garden of Gethsemane before he was arrested, he asked the Father: "If you are willing, remove this cup from me, ( this horrible experience). But not my will but yours be done ".
He knew perfectly well that there was no other way to reconcile the justice, holiness and love of God, if not his atoning sacrifice. He alone, as the Son of God, second person of the Trinity, with its infinite sacrifice could pay for the sin of men infinite. But, as a man, he expressed his anguish, fear, her horror of becoming sin. And his anguish, perhaps, allows us to understand, at least a little, as there was a high price for our salvation.
He became man "to destroy, by his death, he who had power over death, is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were kept slaves all his life" (Letter to the Hebrews 2:14,15).
If today who believe in Him can receive the gift of the grace of salvation and can not think of death as a dark abyss, but as a door that leads to eternal life with God, it is because, in his agonizing struggle, Jesus said "Not my will but yours be done" .
"So God has highly exalted him and gave him a name which is above every name, so in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father " (Philippians 2:9-11).
You believe him?
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