Our Lord was not only all God, He was all Man. Because of this latter truth, He was made like us in every point (sin excluded). And one of our physical necessities in this life is sleep. And so we are told Jesus got wearied in body and had to rest. He was also tired at the end of the day and needed to sleep. I was meditating recently on what He awoke to. What kind of days did He have to face? What were the conditions around Him in which He awoke each morning?
First of all, politically Rome was in power and was a government corrupt to the core; socially, class warfare was one of the top evils of His day; morally, permissiveness prevailed; there were no “Thou shalt nots”; spiritually, among the professing religious elite, it was all externals; and personally He awoke to long days, a hurting world, very little time to Himself, and the shadow of the Cross constantly falling upon His path.
Yet He could say, “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.” How could any Godly person find delight in such depressing surroundings? The secret is found in the words “…within my heart.” Paul experienced similar circumstances as his Master, and he had also learned from Him, no doubt, how to face these insurmountable odds. Form a prison in Rome he wrote the Philippian Church, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.” It was not something going on around Paul that caused him to rejoice, but something on the inside that brought about this exceeding joy.
Remember, “Jesus rejoiced in Spirit.”
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