You know, Yeshua haMashiach / Jesus the Christ was the most perfect man who ever lived. He was fully God and fully man. I don’t really understand that but I believe it because God said so (Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 2:14-17). Yet there is so much of ‘life’ that Yeshua forfeited in order to save my soul and yours. If He’d taken time to build a house for himself, to marry and have a family, to accumulate assests, etc., we’d all be going to hell!

The thing is, He owned the universe so He had no need for bits of paper giving Him rights to acreage on earth, or for currency to give Him ‘buying power’. He had the sure promise of a bride who’d become one with Him in supernatural ways, and a family that would be supernaturally unlimited, so He had no need to spend time seeking union with a ‘rib’ or ‘begetting’ descendants.

He had such a commitment to His mission that He could not be distracted by the appetite for what lesser men lust after, although he did have normal appetites. He declared at different times, for the record: “I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me. … My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me and to finish His work.”

So the sacrifice of Yeshua (which provided salvation for everyone who wants to accept it) did not start at Golgotha, or on the way to the cross that day, or even with His bloody sweat at Gethsemane. It started with Yeshua denying Himself many of those ‘natural’ things that His mortal body craved, in order that He could accomplish His unprecedented and unrepeatable assignment – the redemption of our souls. He set the supreme example of ‘putting the body under’ during His entire life and ministry.

I see no indication in scripture that Yeshua was gifted with low testosterone. The writer to the Hebrews – without doubt a male – described Yeshua as “One who has been tempted in all things as we are.”  Yet I see no manifestations of ‘male ego’ tainting the agape love with which Yeshua ministered to men, women and children. Even the prophecies of His triumph in the Revelation are not coloured with ‘machismo’. If that Samaritan woman who met Yeshua at the well had seen even the slightest glint in His eyes that was reminiscent of the men she’d known all her life, she wouldn’t have rushed into the town with great excitement, shouting especially to the men there, “Come! You all have to see this man…”