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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
John 20:28
‘My Lord and my God’
Read John 20:19-31
There are many who think they do honor to the Lord Jesus Christ when they say that ‘Christ is like God’, or that ‘Christ is a God.’ They do him no Honor at all. Their pretended honor is naked blasphemy! Their religion is a mockery of the Lord Jesus Christ, for he claimed that he is very God of very God. Did he say, ‘Before Abraham was, I AM'? (John 8:58.) Did he not declare, ‘I and my Father are one'? (John 10:30.) While our Savior lived upon this earth, he claimed to possess the attributes of God: righteousness, infinity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. And he fully demonstrated the truthfulness of his claims.
The Word of God expressly declares that, Jesus Christ is God: ‘Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever’ (Psalms 45:6; Hebrews 1:8). ‘Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us’ (1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:16).'Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever’ (Romans 9:5). ‘Without controversy great is the mystery of’ godliness: God was manifest in the flesh'(1 Timothy 3:16). While he was upon the earth his disciples worshipped the Lord Jesus Christ as God, and were never reproved for doing so. ‘Thomas . . . said unto him, My Lord and my God’ (John 20:28). Had he been merely a good man, or even an angel, he would have surely rebuked any who called upon him and worshipped him as God (Revelation 19:10).
If our Savior had been nothing more than a good, righteous man he could never have redeemed us and justified us before God’s holy law. Only God could tender perfect righteousness of infinite merit to the law. Only one who is both God and man in one glorious person could have suffered to full satisfaction the infinite justice of God, so as to merit by one great sacrifice the eternal salvation of God’s elect. The Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, is ‘Immanuel’, God with us, God in our nature, the God-man, our Mediator. Were he not God, he would be the greatest impostor who ever lived, and we should all be miserably lost and without hope.
