We are not surprised that He is exalted and enthroned in the heavens. What is difficult for us to comprehend is that we have been exalted with Him. Yet if “he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (I Corinthians 6:17), it cannot be otherwise.
We are not surprised that “all things have been put under his feet.” What we have failed to comprehend is that as part of Him, His Body, all things are also legally beneath our feet. What we do not realize is that He is “the head over all things to the church” (Ephesians 1:22). This means that His Headship over all things is assumed and held for the benefit of the Church and is directed toward His purpose for her. We have underestimated the supreme importance of the Church in God’s economy, She is the center and motive of all His activity from all eternity. He does nothing solely for His own sake. She is included as a full partner in all His plans.
The Church is His Body, the fullness of Him that fills all things everywhere. He is not full or complete without His Church which is His Body. This is true only because of God’s voluntary self-limitation. In the absolute, God is wholly self-sufficient. He needs nothing and can be served by no one. Yet He has chosen voluntarily to limit Himself in order that the Church may become His judicial equal.
It is true that the Body cannot function without the Head. It is just as true that the Head, by His own choice, cannot function without the Body. Both are equally important to the accomplishment of His plan.
From Destined for the Throne by Paul E. Billheimer.
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