God sent His Son down to earth as a lowly baby. Since that first CHRISTmas, mankind has marveled over this. The awe has never disappeared that God would gift His Son, a King, to humanity and send Him just as we, ourselves, are — a lowly creature of no power, wealth or, seemingly, royal heritage.
Do you, like me, find this incredibly mind boggling? Why would God, our Heavenly Father, do this? I know the Bible answers because of the depth of God’s love for you and me; but still, this seems so hard to fathom. Am I, or you, really worthy of this? Honestly, I, personally, (as well as the vast majority of fellow believers) feel pretty beaten-up and inferior, lately. Satan’s world keeps throwing punches that deflate. Christians everywhere feel more worthless than worthy.
Granted, mankind, as a whole, has turned to evil as their guide; but an even more concerning statistic is that Christians see themselves as helpless, hopeless and inferior to the odds stacked against them. However, are we really as low born and bred as we envision? Could there be a deeper message centering in this very regard? I conjecture there is.
While it is well for us to ponder God sending His Kingly Son to earth as a lowly Babe in a manger, maybe it is time for us to feel the other direction, too. Yes, God sent His Son, a King, to us on earth as a lowly baby in a manger; but was the message exclusively one of “King as lowly”? Could God, also, have been signaling “lowly as King”? Is there a symbolic sign of God’s love for, and perception of, us in the status of Baby Jesus’s arrival on earth? Couldn’t God have been revealing that He sees and holds us, His lowly human children, also, as royalty? If we are God’s, is not our lineage of Kingship? Maybe, understanding this is the kick in the heart, soul and body we need to stop acting like ignoble defeated human beings and start to confidently reject Satan’s attempts to label us as lowly sinners.
To all Children of God who go to sleep tonight shrouded in the darkness of visualizing yourselves as failures, too lowly to look up, not worth the effort to save, to wrong to ever be righted, forgotten, unloved, unlovable, abandoned, exiled, etc., etc., etc., solely know, and “soul”y believe, GOD TREASURES YOU — so much so that He sent His King Son to be just like you (lowly) that you might, also, recognize yourself in your CHRISTmas Baby Brother. God desires us all to see ourselves reflected in the newborn in the manger. We are God’s offspring, Kings and Queens of royal worth in God’s eyes and heart, His noble sons and daughters.
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ…”. Romans 8:16-17 (ESV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 