Crowned with Oil by George Warnock

"Creation continues to cry out for "the manifestation of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:19). And be assured, the lesser brethren of Christ are not going to be manifested in any other way than the way their Elder Brother was manifested. Jesus did not suddenly drop down from Heaven wrapped in glory and manifested in the earth as the Son of God with power. Nor will His younger brothers. Jesus was born into our humanity, and God was manifested through Him in the weakness of His humanity. He grew up under discipline, and learned obedience through the things that He suffered. He carried His cross daily--not just the one time when He carried it to Golgotha. All through His life He walked under the shadow of the Cross. His lesser brethren will certainly be "manifested" in the same way, for Jesus said "I am the Way". They too must know rejection, suffering, learn obedience as He did, and become disciples who count all things but loss, "for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus their Lord". Only as they "suffer with Him" will they be manifested as His sons, and "reign with Him" (Rom. 8:17).

God's first and Special Son was "manifested" in weakness, in poverty, in rejection, in suffering--long before He was manifested as the Son of God in resurrection glory. So will it be with His younger brethren: they will not be manifested as the sons of God with power and glory until they have been manifested in the earth as followers of the Lamb, and showing forth the love and mercy and virtues of their Master in the midst of weakness and mortality. How foolish to think that they are above their Master, and that one day they will just drop down from Heaven to earth as glorified "sons" to deliver creation from her bondage!" - George Warnock
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