What if Jesus had spent his adult years sulking about the circumstances of His birth, growing up as a carpenters son and trekking the length and breath of Isreal?
What if Jesus had spent his days questioning His destiny because his past was in a manger? What if He began to doubt His divinity because of His birth place?
Oh and Egypt, what if it wasn’t cool to be from Africa? How about his hands, He must have ruined His fingers being a carpenter’s apprentice
So established, Jesus’ background sucks!
But we never hear Him wallow in self pity or doubt His glorious future because of His ugly past.
He didn’t contemplate suicide because the thought of the cross was too dark
Jesus stayed in the future. He kept His focus on what was to come, the glorious days that the growing pains will reveal. He lived the past and present based on the word, the prophecies not questioning the process but loving the product – YOU, ME . . . US
He bore His past like a general with battle scars
He lived His present like a man on a mission
He certified a future by love’s call setting an example for us to follow
Listen;
There will be pain and scars, battles to fight, mind strongholds to pull down, all as a result of our journey to greatness.
But like Jesus, we look to the life after the cross, the glorious existence with Abba Father and we forget the past and set our minds on Him
Jesus, His life, His death, His burial, His ressurection
And because He now lives like the king He is we’ve got no choice but to do same
He is risen.
Jesus Our Christ is risen!
