{"id":309,"date":"2011-07-18T04:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T04:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-12-01T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:59:41","slug":"51-he-humbled-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/51-he-humbled-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"51. He Humbled Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ” Philippians 2:8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The \u00a0Father of eternity came into time as a babe. \u00a0(Isaiah 9:6)<\/p>\n

The Son of God came into the world through an earthly mother.<\/p>\n

The Bread of Life was in a manger laid.<\/p>\n

The Lord from heaven dwelt in despised Nazareth.<\/p>\n

The Creator of all things labored as a carpenter.<\/p>\n

The Holy One touched a leper.<\/p>\n

The Almighty was wearied with His journey (John 4:6).<\/p>\n

The All-knowing, All-powerful One submitted to those who came to arrest Him.<\/p>\n

He who upholds the universe with His word spoke not a word in His own defense (Heb. 1:3).<\/p>\n

The One who pronounced the curse upon man that sinned was made a curse for man.<\/p>\n

The sinless One bore the iniquity of us all…<\/p>\n

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Maker of the Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Maker of the universe,
\nAs Man for man was made a curse.
\nThe claims of Law which He had made,
\nUnto the uttermost He paid.<\/p>\n

His holy fingers made the bough,
\nWhich grew the thorns that crowned His brow.
\nThe nails that pierced His hands were mined
\nIn secret places He designed.<\/p>\n

He made the forest whence there sprung
\nThe tree on which His body hung.
\nHe died upon a cross of wood,
\nYet made the hill on which it stood.<\/p>\n

The sky that darkened o’er His head,
\nBy Him above the earth was spread.
\nThe sun that hid from Him its face
\nBy His decree was poised in space.<\/p>\n

The spear which spilled His precious blood
\nWas tempered in the fires of God.
\nThe grave in which His form was laid
\nWas hewn in rocks His hands had made.<\/p>\n

The throne on which He now appears
\nWas His from everlasting years.
\nBut a new glory crowns His brow,
\nAnd every knee to Him shall bow.<\/p>\n

– F. W. Pitt<\/p>\n

(Click to hear a song with these words)<\/a>
\nHere is another song that I have enjoyed, along the same theme…<\/p>\n

Bow the Knee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ” Philippians 2:8 The \u00a0Father of eternity came into time as a babe. \u00a0(Isaiah 9:6) The Son of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-songpoem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}