“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was
still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell
on his neck and kissed him.” (Luke 15:20 NKJV)
Luke, non-Hebrew, Greek, witnessed the life on earth
manifested which was so attractive and amazing to his Greek mind which seeks
wisdom. The life he hadn't seen anywhere in the wisdom searching world was
displayed to his eyes of heart and mind. He was so marveled at the life of the
Man Jesus that he received Him as Lord and followed Him until he was martyred
for the sake of His name. He wrote the Book of Acts as well and worked closely
with Apostle Paul as a companion and fellow worker and the personal physician.
The Gospel of Luke is one of the synoptic gospels,
portraying Jesus as Man. So, it starts with the genealogy of man, Adam who was
the pattern of man, Jesus is the last Adam. He was a perfect man but sinless. As
Man, Jesus prayed everything to the Father in heaven from early in the morning
to all night when He called the disciples. He was given power to create another
universe but He didn’t. Rather, He asked everything to the Father. He lived on
earth on this basis all the time. He depended on the Father from evening to
evening and from head to feet.
He demonstrated true wisdom as Man to the whole world. That
wisdom of Man is marvelously displayed in the parable of prodigal son. The
second son acquired all he wanted and left home to a far country where he
squandered and lavished the possessions of the father. Soon, he became dead
broke and alone and tried to feed himself with the pig food. That is the exact
picture of lost humanity. Human wisdom is turned out as the sheer folly and
foolishness. The complete and utter wreck and ruin is the inevitable and
unavoidable destination of human boasting wisdom.
Out of hunger and desperateness and loneliness, he
remembered the father’s house where even the servants were treated much more
decently and abundantly than he was in a miserable circumstance. So, he made a
beautiful decision of going back to his father’s house, not as a son but as one
of the servants. While he were still away, his father spotted his son coming
home and ran to him and hugged him with a kiss and wore the son’s robe and ring
and killed a fattened calf to celebrate the son’s homecoming.
The wisdom of Man is out of love and mercy to rescue the
lost in the most hopelessness and despair. No one is not without hope in the
Son of Man who is full of wisdom and love to bring the fallen and lost to the
kingdom of heaven. The Hebrews says, “In bringing many sons and daughters to
glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists,
should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.”
(Hebrews 2:10 NIV)
The Son of Man was made perfect through the suffering. He
was perfect even before the suffering. He was holy and sinless from the
beginning. But He was made perfect in His ministry of redemption through
pouring out His blood on the heavenly alter before the Holy God. Jesus Christ
is wiser than anyone in heaven and on earth and under the earth. He offered His
body for us all out of perfect wisdom and knowledge.
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