Jesus Christ – God the Son – willingly took on the limitations of a baby’s body. The God who spoke the world into existence humbled Himself to be taught how to speak. The One who breathed life into Adam had to learn to walk. He grew up. He experienced hunger and fatigue and grief. In Gethsemane, in the final hours before his arrest, He was in such anguish that His sweat became like drops of blood. He prayed to the Father that, if there was any other way, this cup would pass from Him. That is not the prayer of someone who was indifferent to what was coming. That is the prayer of someone who felt the full weight of it and chose it anyway. He chose it willingly – knowingly – for us.
