Saturday, August 26, 2006

His message

Jesus, who emptied Himself to be born as a human child, learned what no one else has learned. He actually learned to obey His Father in everything. He was tempted in all things, and yet was without sin.

In spite of what we say about obeying our Father, we don't. We do not know how to not sin. We try harder, and still fail. We do not know how to live as humans. We have good theories about how someone who is not human should live. Our myths would be good for robots, incapable of choice. But we do not know how a finite human could walk in this life, in our weakness, and yet obey His Father in everything.

Jesus did learn to obey His Father in everything. At the age of thirty, He began to teach what He had learned. His message is summarized in one simple statement.

"From that time Jesus began to preach and say, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'" Matthew 4:17

This is what Jesus had learned as a man. Jesus was not faster, stronger, or smarter than humans. As a human, He had found what actually works. What He preached can work in us, because it worked in Him.

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