Thursday, December 26, 2024

Changing The Divine Diapers

And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.  Luke 2:40

Early on a cool morning in Bethlehem, Joseph the carpenter awakened and sniffed the air. 

"Holy... gag! Mary, I think the Son of the Most High needs to be changed again!"

"No way, it's your turn," Mary said, "And I told you that street vendor's meat looked sketchy, but you fed it to Him anyway." 

The divine child giggled from his new crib and made another stinky deposit in the holy swaddling cloths. 

Like our verse for today, we may be tempted to summarize the infancy of the Christ child and move on to the parables and miracles. Mary and Joseph had to be there, and like many new parents, they may have occasionally fed the newborn Son of God something a bit spoiled by mistake. But wait, the newly-reborn Christian might say, didn't God make some provision for that? Maybe we aren't comfortable thinking of the Christ as a human child with all the usual stinks and messes. But human He was and human He died on the cross to save us. 

I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas!

Bucky

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