Since the beginning of summer I've been helping with Children's church so have missed our Pastor's teaching and to be quite honest I feel like I'm starving. So a few weeks ago I picked up Matthew Henry's commentary on the Gospel of John. Some of it is pretty heavy sledding but if I pay close attention I usually can come away with some very rich vittles.

Here's some comments on Christ's humility from John 1.

"John 1:14 "He was made flesh"

This implies not only that He was really and truly man, but that He subjected Himself to the miseries and calamities of the human nature. Flesh implies weakness, Christ was crucified through weakness. Flesh implies mortal and dying and Christ was put to death in the flesh. Flesh speaks of man tainted with sin and Christ, though He was perfectly holy and harmless, yet appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh and was made sin for us. Wonder at this, that the eternal Word should be made flesh, when flesh was come into such an ill name; that He who made all things would Himself be made flesh, one of the meanest things, and submit to that from which He was at the greatest distance.

"He dwelt among us"

He dwelt among us, here in this lower world. Having taken upon Him the nature of man, He put Himself into the place and condition of other men. The Word might have been made flesh, and dwelt among the angels; but, having taken a body of the same mould with ours, in it He came and resided in the same world with us. He dwelt among us, us worms of the earth, us that He had no need of, us that He got nothing by, us that were corrupt and depraved and revolted from God. The Lord God came and dwelt even among the rebellious. He that had dwelt among angels, those noble and excellent beings, came and dwelt among us that are a generation of vipers, us sinners.
He was in the world, not as a wayfaring man that tarries but for a night, but He dwelt among us, made a long residence. He dwelt here in very mean circumstances, as shepherds that dwell in tents. He did not dwell among us as in a palace, but as in a tent; for He had not where to lay His head."

The Son of God became a Son of man, that the sons and daughters of men might become the sons and daughters of God Almighty.

All true believers receive from Christ's fulness; the best and greatest saints cannot live without Him, the meanest and weakest may live by Him. This excludes proud boastings, that we have nothing but what we have received."


Perhaps the writing is a bit old-fashioned but when I think of all Christ gave up and endured for me it makes me want to love and trust Him more.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Mom