NOTICE: There is a default error on this site indicating a location of NYC. This is incorrect: I am still in Manitowoc WI, for now, and this blog is by a lone author, not a group. “ReallyPoor” will be moving shortly.I don’t much celebrate Christmas any more because I figured out a long time ago that there was no way Jesus was born on December 25th, around the day of Saturnalia, or the Winter Solstice. Nonetheless, I know there are many who still do, and for a few of us whether we celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, or not at all, it is still a time to be aware of our faith and the great and good Lord and Savior.
God did not send his Son, a king to be born in a palace; we hear this every year. He was born to a couple who had very little, on a trip that did not even afford a room for the night. God did it to make a point. His kind of king does not require earthly attendants and accoutrement, but the mark of heaven instead. Made em real mad. Jesus though, one with his Father, God, chose to be “ReallyPoor”.
Phl 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Phl 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:He also had rather a great sense of humor about the rich, noting that it was harder for the wealthy to enter heaven:
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.The wealthy explain that as ‘surrender’ or as a gate in Jerusalem called the eye of a needle, but the ReallyPoor understand that an eye of a needle is an eye of a needle. The apostles must have chuckled at those cumbersome large spitting camels trying to figure out how to get through.
More to follow.
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