A Hero Found in a Baby

Whenever I look at babies, especially after becoming a father, I think about how our Savior came into this world as a baby. The preciousness. The innocence. The fragileness. The vulnerability. All these describe any and every baby that is born. It doesn’t matter if they were planned or not. They are all just waiting to be nurtured.


Jesus came in the form of a human, starting out as a baby. He came from a heavenly palace to an earthly sin-sick shack. God may have asked Jesus, “Hey, I need for You to leave here, go down to earth, experience pain, temptations, trials, and heart-ache for people who won’t appreciate it and who will abandon you. Are you up for it?” You and I would probably never agree to that kind of a deal. Humans have a hard time giving up their parking space for someone else, let alone giving up their life. However, thankfully, He did.


He came down to earth and He was found in an unexpected place – a manger. Our King, in a manger? Our hero, wrapped in His blanket? No paparazzi was covering this event, snapping pictures at each available opportunity. This was a quiet setting. This was God, the Son, coming down from His throne, abandoning His home. This was Him who was great becoming the least, coming to a world that needed a fix. Why did he do it, it was all for you and me.


Have you ever looked at a baby and wondered how God could have allowed His only Son to leave Him to die? What about thinking how Mary must have felt knowing that when she kissed Jesus, she was kissing the “face of God”? It seems so surreal to think about how Jesus came to be our hero. It seems difficult to comprehend how one could die to take the place of every single person who is born. It is unfathomable that the worst of criminals and the most respected citizen “all sin” and are doomed to suffer eternal torment if that unlikely hero, found in the baby, doesn’t grow up, remain innocent and die for the sins of others.


How many people would do that? Maybe a few would consider it, but how many would follow through with it? Only one needed to and He did it for you and me. May the hope that comes through the hero, found in a baby, make your Christmas a little merrier this year!


(article inspired by the song “How Many Kings” by Downhere)





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How Many Would Do That, For Me? - II Corinthians 8:9

It is very difficult to imagine that someone would be willing to take a position that is less desired over a preferred one.  Or go to a less desirable place over a preferred one.  Could you imagine if you were traveling to an all-inclusive resort on a beautiful island and the pilot comes on the loud speaker and says, "Folks, we're not going to be stopping at Everything's Glorious Isle, instead, we're going to go to an island that hasn't been built on.  You will have to come up with your own food and shelter.  We'll be departing in 4 days, like you were planning."  Your jaw drops.  This isn't what you signed up for, nor did you pay to go to this type of an island.  You're getting ripped off! You look down as you fly near the island, and you are not planning on having a good time.

I doubt going to a different place, that is less desirable would ever sell you on this company's offers!  We, simply, wouldn't like that.  We want a better life, not a lesser life.  We want...!  Simply put.

Our Savior was able to look down at us and tell us that He would be willing to leave a place that was "all-inclusive", the greatest paradise we could ever think of, to come to this place...Earth.  He was able to put His desires aside for our sake!  Yesterday, we looked at Jesus being willing to take the less desired position.  Here are some applications to choose from to use this week...

1. When given the opportunity to help out, when the task is "beneath" you, take the opportunity to participate.  There may be a learning opportunity hidden in the task.
2. When someone meets you at a crossroads and it is not known who will go first or get the "spot", take the second chair.
3. When someone asks you to go with them one mile, be willing to go with them two miles.
4. When someone's getting irate or irritated in public, take the position to try to calm the situation.
5. When wondering why Jesus did what He did by coming to this earth for you, offer a praise that He was willing to come to this sin-filled earth for you and me.

I can only imagine what it was like for Jesus to come to this earth, start out as a baby, born to sinful parents, born into a sinful world, rejected, and beaten, and to still being willing to die for you and me.  It was not for His pride, but for you and me.  That is something we need to digest once in awhile.

Kings won't step down from a throne.  Lords won't abandon their home.  Greats won't give up their position for the least.  Fathers do not give up their sons for others.  However, only one did that.  All for you.  All for me.  Jesus did that for us!  (this paragraph paraphrased from "How Many Kings" by Downhere)

How many of you would take the less desired position?  May the example of Jesus give us a reason to do so and a reason to praise Him!

Have a Merry Christmas!

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