For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called […] Mighty God…
Isaiah 9:6
In order to be born as the little Child in Bethlehem, Christ had to lay aside His glory and authority, but He never relinquished His titles. Lying in the hay of the stable 2000 years ago was the Mighty God. Only the angels really knew that for sure, but that’s who He was.
Jeremiah was given insight into who He was 600 years before His Advent: “You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them […] the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts” (Jeremiah 32:18). Isn’t that what Jesus is, love and judgment bound together in the person of the Mighty God?
Over the years, the church has lost its focus on just how strong and powerful our Savior really is. However, the Apostle Paul never lost sight of who He was because He boldly declared, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
Our all-powerful Creator reworks broken lives. “…if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Christ and the gospel were such a great, unstoppable force in the first century that pagan leaders lamented, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too” (Acts 17:6). Opposed on every side by the powerful enemies of God, Paul knew that the ultimate victory was the Lord’s. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).
The world still attacks Christ by attacking his followers, but there’s precious hope. “‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:36-37). We must never lose sight of the fact that Jesus is the Mighty God.
December 15
