The Wednesday Word
‘Me’
“Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth
on ME hath
everlasting life."
-John
6:47 [KJV]
Many
believers lack peace, because, instead of looking at the object of
their faith, Christ, (His doing, dying, rising again and exaltation),
they are looking within themselves trying to find something to give
them rest.
However, nothing within us, or that flows from
us, can give peace to the guilty conscience. The object of our faith
lies outside of us. Remember, we are, in and of ourselves, hopelessly
ruined, guilty, and under God's just sentence of death. We are
utterly helpless to remedy that condition (Isaiah 64:6).
We
need some good news! We need the gospel.
So,
consider our verse. “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth
on ME hath
everlasting life"
(John
6:47).
“Yep” you say, “I know that verse, I first read it years ago.”
But listen to me, the Lord doesn’t just want us just to know this
verse, He wants us to believe it.
In this
verse, there is one powerful word I want to call to your attention.
It is the little word, ‘me.’ We should ask ourselves who the "
me " of that verse is.
So, who is this ‘me?’
He
is the true object for our faith. He is the same One who said, “Look
unto ME, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God,
and there is none else "
(Isaiah
45:22).
Who
is this ‘me’?
He is the eternal Word who was
already in the beginning before the beginning happened (John
1:1-2).
What an object for our faith! He is the One who was with God, and who
was God from all eternity.
Can we trust Him? Is He worthy
of our confidence?
The “me” then of John 6:47 is the
“Word
become flesh.”
See Him, the little infant. Then look and see Him as the perfect man,
lowly, dependent, obedient, and subject to the Father.
Look
and see Him as the Man of sorrows, an outcast in the world He had
made and yet at the same time. He was, “God
over all”
(Romans
9:5).
He was “Immanuel,
God with us”
(Matthew
1:18),
"God
manifest in flesh”
(1
Timothy 3:16),
“the
brightness of God's glory and the express image of His
person”
(Hebrews
1:3).
The ‘Me’ of John 6:47 is the perfectly glorious object for
faith!
See Him in Gethsemane. His sweat is, as it were,
great drops of blood. See Him taking the cup of WRATH.
The
' ME " of John 6:47 is the One we are called upon to trust.
Can you look at Him by faith, and say, "He
was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my iniquities?”
If you can, salvation is yours. If you see that your sins were
transferred to Him, then you see that they are gone, and gone
forever.
This ‘ME’ has now gone back to glory. The man
of the cross is now the man of the crown. The glory of God shines in
His face; there He sits the object of our faith. From those
heights of glory, He is saying, “Look
unto Me
and be ye saved all the ends of the earth."
Listen
to our verse again, “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me
hath
everlasting life“
(John
6: 47).
Mark it well, the believer has eternal life and shall not come into
judgment (John
5:24).
In
conclusion we would ask, is the “me” of John 6:47 enough for you?
Is the mighty work of the cross enough to speak peace to your
conscience? If you trust on Him, you are saved, and have
eternal life. Yes, thank God, He is enough for time, and He is
enough for eternity!
And that’s the Gospel Truth!
--preacher Miles McKee
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