John 7:27 New International Version (NIV)
27 But we know where this man is from; when the
Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
God in human flesh is how John 1:14 describes
Jesus, God's ultimate message (cf. Heb. 1:1-3). Of course this is a
mystery that we cannot fully fathom. It is beyond our human experience and
limited reality. Jesus' critics want to easily characterize him as someone who
cannot be Messiah because they think they know where he is from. They are
wrong. They think he is from Nazareth and not Bethlehem. We know better. They
are even more wrong, because Jesus isn't ultimately from Bethlehem; he is
"from above." Jesus exhausts our imagination and overflows our cup of
wonder as we seek to understand all that he is as our Savior, Christ the Lord.
Thought for today:
Am I in the habit of allowing my imagination to accept worldly things but
cannot apply the same level of imagination to include the things of God?
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