Pleasing to the Father

Figured I would pass along a post from earlier today that I put up on the blog we use for our Luke Study.

"When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too.  And as He was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form like a dove.  And a voice came from heaven: 'You are my Son, whom I love; with You I am well pleased." - Luke 3:21-22

It is good to see Jesus stepping into the limelight and having God declare who Jesus was.  The final transition, as MacArthur said, to the fulfillment of the prophesy of the the 'Sinless One'.  The whole part of the Trinity together, at one moment in time, showing the glory of God and everything that He has set out to do for us.  And isn't a good thing that they showed up.

These lessons also reminded me of a Louie Giglio sermon I heard once about the type of god we see in God.  Of course, I do not remember the exact wording, but Louie mentioned about how awesome it was to have God step out and do something like this.  This is what everyone wants from their father.  They want their father to step up and say 'I am proud of you and I appreciate you and your decision.'  Not only did God do that for His son but He opened up heaven and made it so that everyone knew exactly what was happening.  Jesus Christ stepped into a muddy and disgusting river and humbled himself, again, and received the love from God and the blessing of what Christ's mission was to be for us.

Always good to have God's love for Christ reinforced in my mind because that does nothing but reinforce in my mind how much God loves me.  Feels good.

Pew