Jesus Is One of Us!
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became
poor, that you through His poverty might become rich."
2 Corinthians 8: 9
What did Jesus Christ look like? Did He have the
appearance of royalty like Israel’s first (Saul) and
second (David) kings did (1 Samuel 9:2; 16:12)?
The Bible doesn’t describe Jesus’ appearance. When
the prophet Isaiah described the coming Messiah,
the
description was less royal and more common.
Using descriptive words of The Message paraphrase, Jesus
entered the world as “a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in
a parched field.” He was not “attractive,” a person to whom
we wouldn’t give “a second look.” He was “looked
down on
and passed over”; indeed, people “turned away” from Him
(Isaiah 53:2-3).
In other words, if you had passed Jesus on a
crowded first-century street, you likely would
have walked right by.
Paul makes it clear Jesus left royalty behind and embraced
poverty when He entered our world in Philippians 2:5-8. He
became poor that we might become rich. Jesus
welcomes
us, the common man and woman, because He became
one of us.
Thank God today that Jesus gave
up royalty so
that you might become spiritually rich in Him.
"A Christian’s life is full of
mysteries; poor, and
yet
rich."
Thomas Manton
