JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH
How important, yet how too often overlooked. I can understand the townspeople of Nazareth really having difficulty believing Jesus when He said He was sent from God in Heaven. After all, what their senses told them, what logic dictated was that He was the son of Joseph and Mary.
Yet those same senses didn't reveal that in His lifetime He never sinned. It wouldn't take close scrutiny to see that, yet His own brothers didn't.
It wouldn't take much investigation to unearth the facts that He knew so much about religion at such a young age. Without formal training. Without the years of intense biblical study that the Pharisees had subjected themselves to.
So it was about the physical versus the spiritual. It always is. They were in the physical world in their focus. Thy knew about God: they didn't know God. Not in the personal relationship that He desires for His followers.
Even more, Jesus was Lord at His birth. He didn't have to prove Himself (my goodness, He was there at Creation), He didn't have to earn any accolades, He didn't have to elected--He was/is Lord of all.
As St. Louis Cardinal great Albert Pujols says, "Christmas is about Jesus." Let's follow his words and announce it to all in our greetings this season. I never tire of saying "Merry Christmas".
How important, yet how too often overlooked. I can understand the townspeople of Nazareth really having difficulty believing Jesus when He said He was sent from God in Heaven. After all, what their senses told them, what logic dictated was that He was the son of Joseph and Mary.
Yet those same senses didn't reveal that in His lifetime He never sinned. It wouldn't take close scrutiny to see that, yet His own brothers didn't.
It wouldn't take much investigation to unearth the facts that He knew so much about religion at such a young age. Without formal training. Without the years of intense biblical study that the Pharisees had subjected themselves to.
So it was about the physical versus the spiritual. It always is. They were in the physical world in their focus. Thy knew about God: they didn't know God. Not in the personal relationship that He desires for His followers.
Even more, Jesus was Lord at His birth. He didn't have to prove Himself (my goodness, He was there at Creation), He didn't have to earn any accolades, He didn't have to elected--He was/is Lord of all.
As St. Louis Cardinal great Albert Pujols says, "Christmas is about Jesus." Let's follow his words and announce it to all in our greetings this season. I never tire of saying "Merry Christmas".
posted by TQ @ 5:02 AM
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