🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
When a certain immoral woman from that city heard He was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt at His feet weeping. —Luke 7:37-38
Mary gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped Him snugly in strips of cloth and laid Him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them. —Luke 2:7
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
Snapshot 1: We come to Jesus to be saved.
The woman who comes to the Pharisee’s house brings a costly alabaster container filled with nard. In order to purchase this precious oil, she gives up her wages from prostitution, representative of her old life.
To pour out the perfume, she empties the contents of the jar. To worship Jesus, she empties all of the indiscretions of her past for the salvation that can only come from repentance in Jesus Christ. To honor her King, for all that He is, all that He is to her.
Deep worship and devoted witness for us sinners comes from an emptying of our humanity to fall in humility hard after Jesus.
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Snapshot 2: Jesus comes to save us.
When Jesus arrives on earth, it is in the personhood of an infant. Helpless to champion the helpless. Humble to comprehend the humble. Humiliated to compassion the humiliated. Jesus, the baby, comes in the form of a human. To endeavor this task, He empties Himself of the benefits of His deity and the bastion of His destiny.
Deep worship and devoted witness for the baby Jesus lying in the manger in Bethlehem is found in the emptying of His divinity to follow in humility hard after the will of the Father.
This season of Christmas is not solely about the wrapping of presents, but this wrapping of perfection as the most perfect gift of all: Jesus Christ’s divinity expressing His humanity to bring eternity into the hearts of all who would believe in His theology.
For all that He is, and all that He is to us. The King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords. God with us, Emmanuel.
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