Friday 25 December 2009

talk about humility...

I've been really thinking today about how Jesus was born.... homeless! Then He was a refugee. You can't get much more poorer than that. Then poor Mary giving birth with all the animals staring at her and Joseph having to deliver Jesus. Woah! I don't think dudes typically do that in Jewish tradition. Or any tradition for that matter! They're called 'midwives' not 'midmen', if you know what I mean. So yeah, there's Jesus, sleep'n on some hay. I mean that really is the poorest of the poor. Picture the contrast. Humble King. Taking off his crown, coming down, literally to be born on a pile of poo... killed by the worst execution method still known of today (don't really see any terrorists dieing that way either. Something about human rights violations.) Then to to be exalted above anyone. You don't get much lower... and you don't get any higher. Our Humble King. Our friend. Emmanuel... Our God WITH us!

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