It’s Friday…But What An Enigma!

It’s Christmas. We celebrate the Christ, Jesus who was an enigma. He came into this world as a child of a working-class family from a notably unnoteworthy region of the country. He amazed people with His teaching and His miracles, but He always defied their expectations. When they expected Him to act like an average Galilean, He wouldn’t. When they expected Him to act like a king, He wouldn’t. No one could get a handle on exactly who He was.

The same is true for us today. The God-man, the Creator incarnate, defies our expectations as well. We pray to Him as our King, but He often leads us in the way of true humanity. Then we follow Him as a human example, but He often insists on His Kingly authority in our lives. He is not just our teacher, but our Lord. And He is not just our God, but our friend.

The enigma of Galilee remains enigmatic today, even as we pray to Him. But What An Enigma! He simultaneously meets our deepest needs for human fulfillment and for intimacy with the holy. He is exactly the answer to everything we didn’t know we wanted.

“You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.” (John 18:37)

This is what Christmas is all about. Think about it – infinite Truth in a finite body! It is an answer to all of those questions the philosophers have asked for centuries: Why are we here? Who made us? Where are we going?

In Jesus, God pulled back the curtain on divine mysteries and made them visible. Not completely understood, of course, but tangible at least. He opened the window on all that has been going on behind the scenes in this drama we call life. Thank God, it is possible to see the divine in something as mundane as human history.

Jesus, an enigma? Yes. But a blessed revelation, too. The incarnation gave us Truth – in person.

Have a revealing weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those whose eyes have been opened by the reality of His life and have given Him their life to share His reality with others.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)