I'm going to
walk you through something that caught my eye the other day and the resulting
Bible search that followed...
My daily
Bible reading was in Hebrews recently and I read this passage that I had never
really paid attention to before.
Therefore, when He came into the world, He
said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have
prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of
Me--To do Your will, O God.' " - (Hbr 10:5-7 NKJV)
This caught
my attention because I did not recall a recorded instance in the Gospels when
Jesus said this. I knew the writer of Hebrews was discussing Jesus though.
I love
blueletterbible.com. I looked up
the commentary by David Guzik on this passage and this is what I found:
"This quotation is taken from the
Septuagint version of Psalm 40:6-8 (the Septuagint is the Greek translation of
the Old Testament that was the most commonly used Bible in the first century).
It shows that prophetically Jesus declared the insufficient character of Old
Covenant sacrifice and declared His willingness to offer a perfect sacrifice
under the New Covenant."
David, as he
wrote Psalm 40, was prophesying of what Jesus would say.
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
Then I said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book [it is] written of
me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law [is] within my
heart." - (Psa 40:6-8 NKJV)
Hebrews
10:5-7 just so amazed me. Jesus
came "to do Your will, O God." It reminds me of the countless places
in the Bible that says that to obey is better than to sacrifice. Jesus came into the world, in a body
that was prepared for Him. God
formed and fashioned Jesus just like He forms every baby. (Wow! Let that blow
your mind!!) And then Jesus gave Himself fully as an offering - both a living
offering and a sacrifice that died.
He lived obedience to the fullest. "I have come... do to Your will,
O God."
Oh that we
would live in this frame of mind all the time. "I am here to do Your will, O God." If that's the
case, what would you do differently with the next hour of your life? What would
you do differently tonight? What would you do differently this year? Would your
spiritual walk change? Would the way you treated people around you change if
you were constantly aware that you are here to do His will? Would your
activity/inactivity change towards missions or orphans?
Jesus is our
example. He came. He lived. He died. All to
do His will.
What are we
doing?
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