That’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.
Your soul was more important than His blood.
Your eternal life was more important than His Earthly life.
Your place in Heaven was more important to Him
than His place in Heaven.
So He gave up His so you could have yours.
Philippians 2:5-8 (New International Version)
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Would you do what Jesus do? He swapped a spotless castle for a grimy
stable. He exchanged the worship of angels for the company of killers. He
could hold the universe in His palm but gave it up to float in the womb of
a maiden.
If you were God, would you sleep on straw, nurse from a breasts, and be
clothed in a diaper? I wouldn’t, but Christ did.
If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still
come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would
you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the
mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify
you, would you still make them? Christ did. Would you regard the immobile
and invalid more important than yourself? Jesus did.
He humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the
straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held
the universe took the nail of a soldier.
Why? Because that’s what love does. That’s what love does. It puts the
beloved before itself. Your soul was more important than His blood.
Your eternal life was more important than His Earthly life. Your place
in Heaven was more important to Him than His place in Heaven.
So He gave up His so you could have yours.
He loves you that much, and because He loves you, you are of prime
importance to Him
