Sunday, July 28, 2019

No One Knows July 27, 2019




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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