“41 The chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Jesus, saying, ’42 Jesus saved others; He cannot save Himself’” Matthew 27:41-42.
This is one of the saddest and, yet, most ironic statements in the Bible:
“Jesus saved others; He cannot save Himself” (verse 42). This is actually a very true observation. Jesus was driven to obey the will of His Father in heaven, to do everything God, His Father, wanted Jesus to do. To fulfill the will of His Father in heaven was what motivated Jesus. In so many places in the gospels Jesus said this: “For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent Me” John 6:38.
So Jesus did save others, but He could not save Himself because He came down from heaven to earth, not to save Himself, not to what He wanted to do on His own, but to do the will of His Father who sent him to die on the cross! A few hours before He died, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray, and there in the garden “He threw himself on the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I want but what You want’” Matthew 26:39. The “cup” was the spilling of His blood on the cross for your and my salvation!
So today in your prayer, pray that you will do everything that God tells you to do. Obedience to the will of God is the definition of our life. It is why we are born.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” Matthew 7:21.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” Romans 12:2.
“For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people” 1 Peter 2:15.
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