"A Body Hast Thou Prepared
Me"
Hebrews 10:5
From all eternity it
has been the purpose and determination of God the Father to glorify his dear
Son and give him all pre-eminence. It has ever been the determinate counsel and
immutable purpose of the great, glorious, self-existent, triune God that the
second Person of the blessed Trinity take into union with himself the flesh and
blood of his elect, so that he might show forth in that nature the riches of
his free grace, the height and depth of his everlasting love, and the fulness
of his divine glory. All creation, all providence, all the events and
circumstances of time and space were arranged by God in sovereign
predestination for the execution of that great plan. Therefore, our dear Savior
said, as he was coming into the world, as he was coming into the virgin's womb,
at the moment of his immaculate conception, "a body hast thou prepared
me!" "When the fulness of time was come," according to the plan
and purpose of God, "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under
the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons" (Gal. 4:4-5).
A BODY WAS PREPARED
FOR THE SON OF GOD IN OLD ETERNITY IN THE COVENANT OF GRACE (Psa. 139:13-16). Our Lord was not a
Man before he came into the world. But his human body was prepared by God in
eternal predestination. Indeed, when God made Adam from the dust of the ground,
he fashioned Adam's body in the image and likeness of that body which he had
prepared for his Son, who is the image of the invisible God (Gen. 1:26; heb. 1:3).
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT PREPARED A BODY FOR
THE SON OF GOD IN THE WOMB OF THE VIRGIN MARY AT THE TIME OF THE INCARNATION (Matt.
Don Fortner