Long before Jesus Christ died on the cross, long before he was pierced for our transgressions, 16th century poet Edmund Spenser suggests that the Son of God was pierced, was wounded by love of us:
O huge and most unspeakable impression
Of Love's deep wound, that pierst the piteous hart
Today's post, like yesterday's, emphasizes the strength of Christ's condescension, that he would give up all the power and glory of heaven to become an infant. As Paul writes in Philippians 2:6-8:
"In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness."
This text, while insisting that Christ did not consider it too much to stoop down and save us, does insist that we consider the cost of Christ's humility and self-emptying. Before he was ever pierced in the side at the cross, before he was ever nailed to the cross, how much was God wounded by love of us to take such great cost on himself for our great benefit?
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