Who is Yeshua?

We are wrapping up the book of Matthew.  Today's devotional comes from Matthew 26:57–75. 

Have you ever stayed up all night, maybe pulling an all-nighter for college, or working through the night to get a job done?  Or perhaps one of your kids kept you up sick all night.  The next day how were you?  Were you able to go through your day, how about the next day?  There have been times I have stayed up all night working, sipping coffee through the night just to make it.  The adrenaline probably hit the next morning and I was able to make it, but staying up or getting little sleep can wreck a body and a mind.

Here we see Jesus arrested in the middle of the night and being put on trial in the wee hours of the morning.  He was on trial not for anything He had done, but for WHO He was claiming to be.  He went through one trial and then another.  They were hammering Him with questions trying to find a reason to put Him to death.  He already had a reason though – “For God so LOVED the world that He gave His one and only Son …”  Jesus was ready to die, to take the cup we looked at yesterday, all for LOVE.

Who is Yeshua?  He is LOVE!  And in this passage we read He is the Messiah and He is the Son of God.  Do you call Him by these titles?  He is Messiah – sent to save His people from the punishment of sin, which is death, but the people had a very different idea of what Messiah should be or do; they thought He should save them from their enemies, namely the Romans.  Do you and I have the right view of who and what the Messiah should be?

Yeshua is the Son of God.  He would give His life and then return to His Father in Heaven.  When He made this claim they went crazy crying out, “Blasphemy!”  If this had been in our day and age a judge would be beating his gavel on the bench calling for "order in the court".  But everything happened just as He said it would giving further evidence to His claims of who He was and is.

The evidence was in, but they did not believe.

Application:    Who do you say Yeshua (Jesus) is?  Who is He to you?  I would love to hear your comments or thoughts on Who He is to you!

Prayer:  Father in Heaven, Thank You for Yeshua our Messiah, the very Son of God.  Thank You for loving us so much that You were willing to send Your one and only Son.  Thank You Jesus, Yeshua our Messiah, for being willing to lay down Your life and submit to a false trial, being spit upon and beaten with fists for me and for the whole world.  Thank You for being willing to submit to the Father and take on that awful cup of wrath – the punishment and anger of God for the sins of the world from the beginning of time until the end.  There is truly only One deserving of all praise and glory – the precious Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the earth.  It is through Him Christ our Savior, Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of God, I pray.  Amen & Amen.