Jesus Humbled Himself

“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him” (Isa 53:2). Satan likes to make this cursed and sinful world so nice, bright, interesting and attractive with “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16) and with worldly values, worldly pleasures, worldly entertainments, etc. However, in God’s sight, this world is spiritually “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph 2:1) without life like “a dry ground.” We must thank God for His great love that He sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into this cursed, sinful and spiritually dead world. We must thank our Saviour Jesus Christ, who was willing to leave His holy and glorious Heaven to come into this dry world, and He alone grew up before God as “a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground” because He is God full of life in Himself. Moreover, Jesus humbled Himself so much that “he hath no form nor comeliness.” Form, in Hebrew, toar, means form, appearance, beauty. It refers to the contours and outward form of something, e.g., the body of a woman or a man (Gen 29:17; 39:6; Deu 21:11; 1Sa 16:18). It is used in a stereotypical way, the form of the son of a king, a royal-looking person, a person with dignity (Judges 8:18) (Complete Word Study Dictionary, AMG). Comeliness in Hebrew, hadar, means glory, splendor, majesty. It describes the impressive character of God in 1 Chron 16:27. Often the Psalms use this word in conjunction with others to describe God’s glory, splendor, and majesty (Ps 8:5; 96:6; 145:5). In Isaiah’s prophetic description of the Suffering Servant, he uses hadar to say that the Servant will have no splendor to attract people to Him (Isa 53:2) (AMG). Then, Jesus Christ, who is God and “in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Phil 2:6-8). Praise the Lord!