Are You ONE with Jesus

Let me ask you what I think is a million dollar question?

Why did Jesus endure the cross?

You could answer as Paul describes in the letter to the Hebrews “for the sake of the joy set before him, Jesus endured the cross, disregarding its shame.”

But how does or why does Jesus see the cross with joy?

I believe it is because he is ONE with the Father.  

Jesus’ heart and mind are fixed solely on the heart and the desires of the Father.  

What does it mean to be ONE with another?  It means to be united together with a deep love for one another.  

To be ONE with your spouse is to know their heart and to know their desires and to seek the well being of your relationship beyond all else.  When you are ONE with your spouse there are things that will fall away from your life simply because your spouse does not get as excited about them as you do. 

To be ONE with someone is to be united in such a way that your desires are shaped, formed, and become the desire of the one to whom you are united too.

Jesus was ONE with the Father and the way the Jesus identified this ONENESS was by knowing the fullness of God’s Love and Living with a full reflection of this Love returning to the Father.  It was from this ONENESS that Jesus was then able to love others, to do the ministry that he did and share his life in the way that he did even to the point of shedding his own blood.

Jesus says many times through the Scripture that he didn’t do anything apart from what he saw or heard first from the Father.