When God became flesh he made himself low so that he could wash our feet. He came down and healed us. He cried with those who mourned. He healed everyone who asked for healing. He healed from a distance. He proved the kind of resource he is: enough, and plenty left over.

He went to pimps, prostitutes, thieving tax collectors, dirty scoundrels and they wanted, only, more of his company. Something was different about Jesus of Nazareth. What do you think it was?

In response to man’s idolatry, mistakes, greed, and all manor of sin, He, himself, the Ancient of Days sent his right hand and scooped us up, his children, purchased with his son’s life and for his own benefit.

He is so near to us that he cannot be unaware of each hair that falls from our heads. In response to a world we see and condemn, he responded by redeeming. His ways are not our ways. He never returns evil for evil, but instead gives good when he is treated with evil because his ways are life, and life abundant.

He sent his only son to pour out his life so that the transgressions of many would be covered. When we cry out to Jesus for salvation, he hears us and he saves. When Jesus was asked what are the qualifications for salvation his answer was, “Whoever hears my word and believes… Moreover, the Father judges no one, but entrusted all judgement to the Son… For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval” (John 5:22, 24, 6:27.) Salvation is for anyone who wants it.

God is real. God is the only one who saves. God is love. When you get to know Jesus, you get to know the Father because they are one and the same. How is it possible for God to become a man? I think, a better question is, “Did it feel any different than it normally feels to be everywhere, all at once?”

What does this mean?

“Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.” And now the Lord says – he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength – he says: ‘It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 49: 1-6

Is any one rejoicing, yet?