But where could God find one who would qualify as the God-man? Most surely not among the sons of men on earth, nor among Heaven’s angelic hosts, for they are neither God nor man. One and only One, even in Heaven itself, could ever be thought of for such an exalted task — the eternal Son of God.

But how could even He be a Mediator for man? It is easy to see how the Lord from Heaven could represent a holy God, but could He be a just, righteous, impartial representative for sinful man? If such a reconciliation demanded a divine-human Mediator, how could He qualify who had been the holy Son of God throughout all eternity of the past?

Just here we come to the place where the human mind has to acknowledge its finiteness, where human reasoning is silenced, where human comprehension confesses defeat, for we are lifted above all that is human, earthly and natural, up—up—up—into the realm of that which is divine, heavenly and supernatural, to the wondrous grace of God. Nothing but the grace of God could have provided such a divine-human Mediator, could have conceived the thought of a God-man.

Again, we are driven back in thought to that which took place in the eternal councils of the Godhead as the Omniscient Father, Son, and Holy Spirit looked out upon the universe they were to make, upon the man they were to create and foresaw the tragedy in Eden with all its terrible consequences. Then and there, the Triune God looked from eternity to eternity and compassed fully in thought and plan all that would take place between, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ” (Genesis 1:1) and “I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away” (Revelation 21:1). It was then and there determined that the eternal Son of God, the Alpha and the Omega, “the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelation 22:13), should lay aside for a brief space of time His essential glory, and “be made in the likeness of men . . . [to become] obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:6-8) that He in returning to glory might bring “many sons unto glory ” (Hebrews 2:10), to be forever with the Lord. There in the glory of eternity, the grace of God fashioned the wondrous plan of redemption by which the eternal Son of God would become the incarnate Son of Man; the divine-human Mediator; the God-man whom both God and man would need when sin entered into the human race and separated man from God. Christ Jesus is the divinely provided Mediator.

1 Timothy 2:5

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, himself man Christ Jesus.”

Next, we will concentrate our thought upon His person. Who is He?

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Nothing but the grace of God could have provided such a divine-human Mediator, could have conceived the thought of a God-man.  Thank You, God, for Your grace!