Sometimes I joke about what I’d do if I had one day left to live. Eat junk, go crazy, etc. Today it hit me: Jesus knew. And he washed feet
Luke 2:6-14
Final three Biblical affirmations from Luke 2:
- THE SAVIOR – Jesus Takes Away All Our Guilt
- THE CHRIST – Jesus Fulfills All Our Hopes
- THE LORD – Jesus Defeats All Our Enemies, And Makes Us Safe And Satisfied Forever
Sweet touch of a cultural practice. “And she wrapped him in swaddling cloths.”
Ezekiel 16:4-5
Solomon once said: “I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths. For no king had had a different beginning of existence; there is for all one entrance into life, and one way out.”
The first piece of the reality puzzle is the word translated “manger.” A more better translation of that word would a crib for fodder. Or a feeding trough.
THE SAVIOR WHO DIES ON A SHAMEFUL CROSS WAS PLACED IN A LOWLY TROUGH FOR BARN ANIMALS WHEN HE WAS BORN…HIS HEAD RESTS WHERE CATTLE HAVE FED.
“No place for them in the inn.”
Luke 22:11
“And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.” – Notice it doesn’t say she was in labor
Luke 2:8 “And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.”
Isaiah 1:2-3
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, GOD WILL FEED HIS HUNGRY PEOPLE.