We think it's a sacrifice to give up our homes, our comforts, our families and friends.[I'm wrestling with surrendering some of those very things right now but when I remember...] Jesus gave up Heaven. The perfect place. His home. He gave up being with His Heavenly Father. Why? So we could be with His Father someday. He didn't give it up just for a day, a week, month, or even a year or two. He gave it up His entire life. 33 years of not being able to go Home. 33 years of walking on this sinful earth. He became a baby, was born in a stable, grew up in several places, with Nazareth as his hometown. All the while, He was the Son of God in flesh, it just amazes me. What deep and incredible love! He spent years teaching, and preaching. He was rejected, hated, mocked, scorned, tempted, and despised yet all the while He was perfect. He reached out to the least of these. No one was too poor, too hurt, or too sick for Him to touch or care about. He warned the self-righteous, reached out to the sinners, and loved both. He chose 12 disciples who were His close friends. He taught them, prayed for them, revealed Himself to them, and yet He knew one of them was going to betray Him. His "friend" was going to turn Him in for money, yet He still loved. He knew what it was like to be tired, hungry, to feel pain, and lose a loved one. He loved little children. They were so special to Him. So much so, that in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we need to become like them.
He took the sins of the whole world upon His shoulders. In that moment Jesus took our pain, our rejection, our hurts, our fears, our broken hearts, and made them His. Now we are free in Him to be the men and women He created us to be. He did this because He loved and was obedient to His Father's will. Will you not return that love?
Ephesians 3:17-2 (NKJV)
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
til next time.. God's nomad child
ext time... God's noma
