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Preparing for Worship December 30
I’m kind of glad there aren’t any stories from my tween years floating around in written form. It is interesting that we have one of Jesus. Holding together the youthful behavior of a young boy and the growing wisdom and understanding of God can be hard to imagine.
Our images of God don’t easily combine these characteristics. Yet, here in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is beginning to show signs of the insight and wisdom of God’s presence together with the impetuousness of a young boy.
Somehow the incarnation allows for this unity of human behavior and divine character. Among other things this suggests to me that we are loved as a people as much as the scriptures tell us, maybe more.
As we continue to search out Christmas and the wearing of the gifts that have flowed into our lives, we might also begin to think about one more gift that this child brings – a vision of how wondrous our humanity is in the sight of God. May the gifts of Christmas continue to be surprising!
Pastor Mitch