Christ is our everlasting King. He’s called our Mediator, our Redeemer, and our risen Lord. He’s also the Door, the Way, and the true Vine; our wonderful Counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, and Prince of peace.
He encompasses all these things and more.
Proverbs 8:23-30 gives us the beginnings of Jesus:
Verse 23:
“Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.”
Jesus didn’t come about because of creation. Rather, he’s the cause of creation.
Verse 24:
“When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.”
Scientists say life is water-based, yet Christ was there before water was created.
Verse 25:
“Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,”
Sometimes we joke about being as old as the hills. Christ predates even the hills and the stones of antiquity.
Verse 26:
“...before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.”
The dust of the world is the primordial soup; the atom. Jesus was here when those minuscule particles were still undreamed.
Verse 27:
“When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,”
As part of the godhead, Christ was present with God at the beginning of everything.
Verse 28:
“...when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,”
Our Lord watched the initial formation of the earth, as the elements coalesced into the waters that pound our shores.
Verse 29:
“...when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,”
It’s by Christ’s own hand that gravity keeps the seas in the oceans and the earth hangs securely in the sky.
Verse 30:
“...then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always.”
The Christ who formed our world at the side of the Father is sculpting us today into a thing of beauty to stand tall before him.
Christ is also our Sacrifice for our sins. He was there at the beginning of all things, and he wishes us to have a new start in him. He desires to be the One who sets us free and to be our Lord of all.
Jesus is our hope and our indescribable gift. He offers us life, and we find that life through him.
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