Day 338: Jesus

 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 

so that at the name of 

Jesus 

every knee should bow, 

 in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that 

Jesus Christ is Lord, 

to the glory of God the Father.

 Philippians 2:9-11

Whenever I see a "therefore", I was taught to ask myself, "What is the therefore there for?" And this is a verse that has been on my mind a lot in recent weeks. As our church hears the depths of Hebrews, in small group we just finished studying the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. There's a lot to be said about who Jesus is, and what he has accomplished and fulfilled. So I have been thinking a lot about Jesus, and all that he is from High Priest, to Savior, to Emmanuel. 

So, what is the "therefore" there for?

We find it in the verses before this amazing statement:

...though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but made himself nothing,

taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, 

even death on a cross. 

Philippians 2:6-8

Christ had to be born in humility and obedience, fulfilling all that the prophets wrote about him. He had to become a spotless Lamb and die on the cross. Being God, he conquered death, and has victory to the glory of God the Father. There is power in the name of Jesus. 

Yes, there is power in the name of Jesus.