When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying, heaven opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove.
And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.” (Luke 3:21-22)
It’s interesting to me that right after this, Luke talks about the genealogy of Jesus, which concludes with these words:
…Adam, son of God. (38)
And it made me think, when God created Adam, did he say to Adam what he said to Jesus?
“You are my beloved son; with you I am well-pleased.”
I’m not sure, but my guess is that God did.
Jesus is of course God’s perfect Son. But Adam at his creation was also perfect.
So it seems only natural that God would say to him, “You are my beloved son. With you I am well-pleased.”
What’s amazing to me, though, is that God looks at us, flawed though we are, and he tells us,
“You are my beloved child. With you I am well-pleased.”
Why can he say that? Because Jesus paid for all our sins on the cross.
Now when he sees us, he doesn’t see us clothed with our sin. Rather, he sees us clothed with Jesus’ righteousness.
And so he smiles at us, and says, “You are my beloved child. With you I am well-pleased.”
Not angry.
Not disappointed.
Well-pleased.
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