When The Saviour Needed One

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When The Saviour Needed One

2019-08-12T07:15:57+01:00

By CNP

13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:Ã‚Â Matthew 2:13-14.Was not Jesus the Son of the Mighty God, who Himself was God?Ã‚Â Did such a Son need to flee from mortal threat? Ã‚Â Was that not going to be the reproachable weakness on the part of a great God? Would God ever flee from man? How could we even be sure that the angel who had brought that message had truly come from God? When in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 the Wise Man Solomon speaks of a time for everything under the sun, did he also mean a time to flee and a time to pursue?Was there wisdom in the flight that the angel was advising, that man should take up the infant God and flee with Him from the threat of a Ã¢â‚¬Ëœmere manÃ¢â‚¬â„¢?In Baby Jesus, God at the moment was a Ã¢â‚¬ËœhelplessÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ infant.Ã‚Â One day He was going to be the Mighty Saviour, but that future had not yet come, and it would be foolishness rather than faith to risk the present on that future or to live in the infant Present as if it were that triumphant Future. Ã‚Â The wisdom was to manage Today so well that the Tomorrow it carried was not aborted. This infant would Tomorrow be a Saviour, but Today He Himself needed to be saved by one of those He would later save in some other way!The story of Rahab the once-upon-a-time Jericho prostitute and the two spies from Israel teaches many lessons.Ã‚Â One day they were her clients; they were vulnerable refugees at her mercy.Ã‚Â The next day, those same vulnerable spies had become her saviours from the inevitable fate that had been coming upon her secure city and upon her lofty place of safety upon those city walls.Tomorrow often seems so far because it usually comes so slowly that we never really know until Today has become Yesterday.Ã‚Â The world is round.Ã‚Â The helpless victim you save today might become your saviour tomorrow when the table turns as it daily does on this revolving earth.21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.22 But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.”23 And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of IsraelÃ‚Â (Joshua 6:21-23).It is pride to suppose that one is too eminent to ever need anotherÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s help.Ã‚Â Everybody today could be somebodyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s saviour tomorrow in some unique way.Ã‚Â The world you save today might be the one to save you tomorrow.Ã‚Â If even God needed once upon a time to be helped to flee, it is not wisdom to not read the skies when the clouds begin to gather.Ã‚Â God was going to teleport Philip from one place to the other, yet that same man had had first to use his legs for speed as he Ã¢â‚¬Å“ranÃ¢â‚¬Â; first he used his legs in response to the divine call, until the time came when the prerogative of God did not need his legs for the next bus stop (Acts 8:26-39).October 19, 2017.