Everyone Will Bow

Everyone Will Bow

John 18:4 – Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, “Who are you looking for?” 5 – They replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He told them “I am he.” (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.) 6 – So when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground.

What would cause them all to lose their balance and fall to the ground? The great I AM had revealed Himself and the angel that had been attending to Jesus in the garden when He sweat great drops of blood had not left. He was still there. This angel had been attending to Jesus giving Him strength from His Father. If Heavenly angels were ever prone to human emotion I wonder what this angel was feeling? What would he have been capable of doing if he had been given permission to defend his master? (one word from Jesus would have turned them all to dust) – but alas all he was permitted to do was stand at attention before His Lord at the mention of his name – whether it was his aura or some other force we know not – only that it was enough to shake these sinners off their feet and leave them on the ground in a humiliated posture of worship before their Creator.

Isaiah 45:22-25 says – Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer. I solemnly make this oath – what I say is true and reliable: ‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm; they will say about me, “Yes, the LORD is a powerful deliverer.” All who are angry at him will cower before him. All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the LORD and will boast in him.

Foolish Judas and his contingent of soldiers and officials received a taste of what it meant to have their knees bent before the peerless Jesus, the Son of God, who had just made up His mind to go forward to the cross, to the grave, and to His Father to deliver all who would believe in Him. The angel compelled them to lie prostrate before the Son of God who would go to the cross to deliver them.

As a result of Jesus’ death on the cross “God exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the death – and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians 2:10,11.

We will all bow down and worship Jesus, whether we are cowering in fear or boasting in His deliverance. Which will it be?

Wherever you are this weekend. Let us bow in worship and boast about Jesus in our love and praise to our Lord for there is no other who can deliver us like He can!

Have an incredible Sabbath!