THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE DIED "NEEDING"!

This just came to me...

I know how the saying, "A friend in need is a friend indeed" got started, but I wonder how many people really understand where that can end up? The person who "meets that need" really believes that other person was needier and thinks he was the benefactor on top providing that need so is the one to be thanked, feels absolutely no gratitude towards the person he helped!

Perhaps the end goal was that of encouraging the helper, of bettering his self-esteem, nothing more. SO IT IS ONLY IF GOD CHOOSES TO REMOVE A VEIL OF WISDOM FROM THE EYES OF HIS MIND (by various means) HE WILL RECOGNIZE THE FAVOR OF GRACE SHOWN HIM; otherwise, He may proceed the rest of his life unaware of this fact, simply thinking himself to be the benefactor.

When Joseph of Arimathea asked for Jesus' body off the Tree, I wonder if the VEIL OF WISDOM was removed then to see that he had been permitted to handle the clay vessel of the Son of God used for the Redemption of Mankind...including himself? Would it have occurred to him what an awesome thing it was for a human being to interact with God like that at the foot of the Cross?!

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As the natural mind would have it, would onlookers say, this was a "good man," the benefactor who stooped to extend an act of kindness to an executed criminal, discarded and forgotten, whom no one else cared to touch, who deserved no care, who was alone and unable to fend for himself? ALL actually as untrue as the billionaire who retired his disguise as a beggar in a slum alley and returned to his estate, accounts, limousines, and bodyguards. The kind custodian friend came by and found the old rags and buried them for him.

P.S.:(A big difference between the above allegory and the reality is that Jesus REALLY DID DIE. It wasn't just his clothes that were tattered and buried. He was dead for 3 days. But then He came back to life again. HE DIDN'T NEED ANYBODY'S HELP FOR THIS!)