SAY YOUR MIND 🇻🇦

Jesus said “the Father is greater than I.” Case closed. He’s lesser. I used to wave this verse around like a trophy. “The Father is greater, checkmate, Christians.” But after I converted to Christianity, I realized what Jesus was actually saying: Greater in position, not in nature. John 14:28: “the Father is greater than I.” I waved this around for years. But think about what “greater” means. Your boss is greater than you in RANK. That doesn’t make you a different species. A king is greater in POSITION than his son, but they share the same blood, the same nature, the same royalty. Jesus, in that moment, was in the days of His humiliation, the eternal Son who had stepped DOWN, wrapped Himself in flesh, taken “the form of a servant.” Philippians 2:7. Of course, the Father in unveiled glory was “greater” in position than the Son hanging in human weakness on His way to a cross. But nature? “I and the Father are ONE.” John 10:30. “In Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” Colossians 2:9. Here’s the flip that got me: the Son being “lesser” for a while isn’t His weakness. It’s His LOVE. He didn’t cling to His rank. He climbed down from it, for you. “Though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor.” 2 Corinthians 8:9. Bro, The Father was greater in that moment because the Son chose to go low and He went low to lift YOU up.