The Majesty of the Man

When Jesus walked on the earth, He drew the downcast, the rejected and the scorned to himself.

He ate with tax collectors and prostitutes.

There was something about Him. Something that made the lost realize that they were somehow significant. That they were important to Him.

Jesus told His audience, 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him shall not perish, but shall have eternal life, God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.'

When the woman caught in adultery was brought before him in all her shame, only He stood up for her. Jesus wrote on the ground on that day using his finger. The symbolism of that act is inescapable. The only other time in the Bible where God wrote with His finger was when the Ten Commandments were given. I believe Jesus had written the Ten Commandments on the ground. Jesus then looked up and around to the crowd who had gathered to stone the woman and said, 'Who is without sin cast the first stone'. One by one the crowd thinned and dispersed till there was no one but Jesus and her.'Woman, where are your accusers?' He asked -- Love himself was talking here -- 'neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.'

The Majesty of the Man.

When Pontius Pilot brought Jesus before Him, Jesus came with no weapons. In fact Jesus had to reattach and heal the ear of one of the people that had come to arrest him because Peter had lobbed it off with a sword -- to which Peter received the Lord's rebuke.

Jesus appeared before Pontius Pilot beaten and bruised. Yet Pontius Pilot knew that he was in the prescence of real Royalty -- Heavenly Rolyalty. Pilot asked Jesus -- in the fear of a dawning realization that he was indeed standing before someone not of this world -- 'To what world do you belong?'

And even after he had reluctently delivered Jesus to be crucified -- because he feared that the Jews would report him to the Roman government that he did not carry out Roman law -- this hardened man wrote on a placard 'King of the Jews' and placed it on the Cross of Jesus -- much to the consternation of the Jews.

Why? Because He had seen and heard Heaven in the prescence of the Son of God.

The Majesty of the Man.

But Jesus still walks among us today. He still sits down with the broken and downcast and scorned.

He sits down with you and me.

He still speaks words of Love to our failures, brokeness and shame and says,'where are your accusers? neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more'.

He has never left us. He's never left me. And I will tell the world of this Love that found me and leads me daily. I will tell the world of my Servant King, Jesus.