Jesus Mattered

What Did Jesus Do?

All things were created by him…
Colossians 1.16

Archeology provides us with some incredible evidence of long-lost civilizations. From little bits of stuff, like potshards, to huge monuments, like pyramids, the things big and small that ancient peoples made offer us tremendous insights into who they were, how they lived, what they did. Were it not for this hard evidence, the accumulation of the matter, if you will, that these ancient people produced, we would probably not know much about them.

If anyone had been around to come up to Jesus and ask Him, “Jesus, whatcha’ doin’?” during the six days of creation, I believe His answer might have been, “Mattering.” You see, during that long ago first week Jesus turned the Word of His Father into matter. Other than God, the Three in One, nothing at all had ever existed from all eternity past up to the moment the Father spoke , “Let there be…” and the Son started, well, mattering. “All things were created by him”; if you will, all things were mattered by Him. And, though the work of creating all the stuff of the cosmos concluded with the close of the sixth day, the Son has never stopped mattering. Want to know about Jesus, you don’t need Archeology. Just check out what the Son mattered.

Look up in the night sky at the stars; Jesus created all the matter that fires those countless celestial beacons. Look through a microscope at a drop of water; Jesus created all the matter of the tiny teeming organisms swimming about. Take a deep breath; the matter that composes our atmosphere was created by Jesus. Those graying hairs on your head; Jesus created the matter that made you a blonde, brunette, or redhead, and He counted each one! Everywhere we turn, everywhere we look, from the infinite to the infinitesimal, Jesus mattered it all, just as the Father spoke it.

Now spirit is not matter. Spirit has no mass, no density, no physical properties at all, it is measureless. But there came a time when it was absolutely necessary for God, who is spirit (John 4.24), to become flesh, to matter himself, if you will. And so the Father sent the Son into the world to matter as never before. What the Son made material in His Incarnation was the glory of His Father, and He did it by revealing the grace and truth of God. The grace and truth of the Father was what mattered most to the Son. In the end, knowing this, the grace and truth of the glory of God in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ the only Lord and Savior, will be all that, well, matters. In the beginning, Jesus mattered. When the world needed to be redeemed, Jesus mattered. When the cosmos passes away, Jesus will be the One who alone will matter for the elect who will enter the Father’s kingdom. Mattering. That’s what Jesus did.

S.D.G.

Jim
www.jimwilkenministries.org
Marion, NC
PS 37.4