'The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.' (John 10:10 NIV)
The culmination of the redemptive work of Christ is His death, resurrection and glorification; but His redemptive work started at incarnation.
He was not born to establish a earthly Kingdom (John 6:15), neither did He come just to get people healed, give riches, nor forgive sins though all these and much more are given in the redemptive package.
If all He came to do is to forgive sins and heal sick bodies; apart. from the fact that He wouldn't have done anything new because people were getting healed and sins were being forgiven before He came (Psalm 103:1-3); human would still have helplessly continued in sin and sickness.
The ultimate need of human is RIGHTEOUSNESS - ability to stand before God unashamed; having a close communion with God; being in perfect spiritual union with God.
It was man's estrangement from God that gave way to the oppression of the devil in which sickness is inclusive.
Hence if man would be delivered from sin and satan He must be brought back into union with God, If man must be useful in fulfilling God's will on earth, then he must be brought back to God.
And then, we saw the ultimate demonstration of the manifold wisdom of God and His love in that God became man so that man can partake of the VERY NATURE of the Almighty God and become ONE with Him.
Consider these:
'The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.' (John 10:10 NIV)
"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may PARTICIPATE in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." (2Peter 1:3-4 NIV)
"But whoever is united with the Lord is ONE with him in spirit." (1Cor.6:17)
He came to bring us to God, He came to make us righteous, He came to make us partakers of the nature of God, He came to make us children of God.
Now we are righteous, now we are God's children (Gal. 3:26) and now we are partakers of the nature of God - we are the trophies of His triumph.
Lazarus who was raised from death, blind Bartimeus whose eyes He openned miraculously and the healing of the woman with the issue of blood among all others, are not the perfect proofs of His coming.
We who have partaken of His nature are the real proofs of His coming - we are the trophies of His triumph.
Aint you grateful to God that He came?
