“GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED HIM!”

 Philippians 2:9-11                    (ESV)

“[9] Therefore “GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED HIM” and bestowed on HIM the NAME that is above every name, [10] so that at the name of JESUS every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [11] and every tongue confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of GOD the FATHER.”

One of the quickest ways to get me into a “bad place” is to disgruntle my wife, the one GOD revealed to me that HE had CHOSEN for me over 40 years ago!!  To irritate me very quickly and deeply, that is a sure fire way of setting me off!

Why then does it not bother me as badly when the name of THE LORD is used “in vain”, or without respect to what is meant!  Considering who each human is and where we are headed, it seems to be almost impossible to BELIEVE that JESUS CHRIST would sacrifice HIS LIFE for us, especially when most of us won’t SEE HIM as HE IS until THE JUDGEMENT?  

You may hurt someone’s wife or any other person, but ONE DAY we will ALL SEE precisely WHO JESUS is!!!  “Every knee” indicates that everyone “in heaven and on earth and under the earth” will acknowledge that HE is WHO GOD says!!!  “GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED HIM” indicates that there is NO OTHER ahead of HIM!!  Thankfully HE has OPENED my EYES to SEE that TRUTH!!!