Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 14, 2024 – Quote for the Day:
“When God came to us, in the person of Jesus, he came to be one of us – in humility. That truth alone – that God humbled himself – seems to be blasphemous to many within religion. How could God become humble?
God determined that he would enter the womb of Mary, a teenage girl who was betrothed, but not yet married. Yes, she was married to Joseph when Jesus was born, but she was pregnant with Jesus when she and Joseph married. The circumstances of his birth caused tongues to wag. Why did God do it that way? Why didn’t God the Holy Spirit just wait to impregnate Jesus after Mary and Joseph were married? Of course, God orchestrated things the way he did so that the birth of Jesus was absolutely miraculous – as we call it, the virgin birth.
Jesus, the God-man, chose to be born into a poor, humble family, beginning his mortal life not like Adam and Eve, who were created as full-grown adults – but rather, Jesus started his human life in the weakness and dependence of infancy. He was born in a manger, not in a palace – in a barnyard – not in a sanitized, hygienic, germ-free hospital birthing room. Why did he begin his earthly life as an infant? Why waste all that time as an infant and as a child? Why not come to us as an adult – and then he would have been able to minister for 30 years, instead of just three-and-one-half years?”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 2
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