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AS HUMAN AS HE INTENDED TO BE - Max Lucado
From Mike: I admit that it is really difficult to think of Jesus the Christ in the terms that Max describes Him. He's the Son of God who preformed all types of miracles, healed people and raised them from the dead. Max gives Him many of the same human qualities as me. Yet if I don't believe in His human side it's more difficult to think He can understand where I've been and am now. How could He understand if He wasn't as Max describes Him? Maybe it's more irreverent not to see Him as Max describes Him!
"It all happened in a moment, a most remarkable moment. God became a man. Heaven opened herself and placed her most precious one in a human womb."
"Jesus came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. The hands that first held him were un-manicured, calloused, and dirty. For thirty-three years he would feel everything you and I have ever felt. Weak and weary and afraid of failure. His feelings got hurt."
"To think of Jesus in such a light seems almost irreverent. There’s something about keeping him divine that keeps him distant and predictable. But don’t do it. For heaven’s sake, don’t! Let him be as human as he intended to be. Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out"
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