“Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Cor. 8:9).
“He was rich.” Isaiah “saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim. ... And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. Then said I, Woe is me! ... for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” John tells us that “these things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spake of Him,” our Lord Jesus Christ. But He “made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” “For your sakes He became poor.” “She brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” “He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. ... Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. ... All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
He was in the Father’s bosom
Throughout all eternity,
Yet He became Man for our sakes,
Bearing sin for such as we.
Isa. 6:1-3,5; John 12:41; Phil. 2:7; Luke 2:7; Isa. 53:2-4,6.