"The incarnation is the irruption of God into human history: an incarnation into littleness and service in the midst of overbearing power exercised by the mighty of this world; an irruption that smells of the stable. The Son of God was born into a little people, a nation of little importance by comparison with the powers of the time. He took flesh among the poor in a marginal area—namely, Galilee; he lived with the poor and emerged from among them to inaugurate a kingdom of love and justice. That is why many have trouble recognizing him."
~Karla McClurg
We live in a world that, even in the church / Christian community wants the opposite of this. So many live enamored by glitz and power, by fame and money.
But that is not the way of the kingdom of God.
That is not what the Gospel of Jesus is about.
That is not the type of life that the Spirit empowers us to live.
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