Born in Due Time

In Galatians 4:4-7, we read: "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!' So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God."

As I considered today’s verses over the past several weeks, I was impressed once again that there is no doubt that God is involved in the affairs of men specifically and intentionally. As Paul writes of Christ’s birth, he clearly indicates God sent forth his Son when the fullness of time had come. In other words at just the right time, the perfect time, a specific time, Jesus came. What determined it to be the perfect time, I don’t know, but I do know it was the perfect time in God’s plan.

“God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law...”

Why?

Why would the Eternal Creator God leave the glories of heaven, to come in the flesh, to save sinful, rebellious man?

...to redeem us from under the law. Romans 8:3-4: “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Christ did what we could not do.

Now that is amazing enough, but what I find even more amazing is that He did not redeem us and leave us as slaves, but rather, he redeemed us that we might be adopted by His Father, making us sons of God. As adopted children, we have become sons/daughters of the Eternal Creator God.

Not only are we redeemed from under the law, and adopted by the Creator and King of the universe, He has put the Spirit of His very own Son into our hearts which cries out to Him, “Abba! Father!”

And it just keeps getting better. In addition, we became full heirs of the promises and provisions of our Father.

By the birth, life, and death of Jesus, we were redeemed out of slavery, became sons of God by adoption into His family, and enjoy forever the treasures of relationship with God and the glories of heaven. With our sonship we became heirs with Jesus Christ, because in the fullness of time, Jesus came.

Diane Hunt