This will be a sign
to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.
-- Luke 2:12
If
you have a teenager, he or she has no doubt reminded you that you just
don't understand.
As
a humble parent, you’re told that you're hopelessly out of touch when it comes
to clothes, school, social media and a hundred other things. But of course, you
know a lot more than they can imagine. You were once a teenager. And you
probably said many of the very same things to your own parents.
So,
maybe you really do understand after all. At least a little bit.
Do
you ever wonder if God understands the many problems you face each day?
But
was that necessary? As a king's son, Jesus could have lived in marble
palaces while enjoying only the finer things in life. And God could have
commanded the people to worship and obey him.
But
it wouldn't have been the same. As our loving Father, God gives us free will.
And he won’t force us to accept his gift of forgiveness and salvation. He knew
from the beginning that men and women are without hope because of the ways they live and treat others. That's why he came to earth in the form of a man to live out the
perfect life in our place. But not just any man: He lived among us through
Jesus Christ.
Fully
God and yet fully human, he walked in our shoes.
Throughout
Jesus' brief ministry, the religious elite despised him and cursed him. And
soon our Savior would die in a most painful and humiliating way -- nailed to a
cross between common criminals.
His
mission was finished. It was by coming to earth that God experienced mankind's
struggles and suffered for all of us. And through his resurrection, he also won
victory over death.
This
plan of salvation certainly wasn't logical -- at least from a human
perspective. But it was the only way that our Creator could truly understand.
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