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December 4
THIS MAN CALLED JESUS

Scripture: Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins.”

     I read this some years ago and wanted to share it with you today! I hope you know Him today! Here is a man born in an obscure village, a child of a peasant woman. He grew up in a carpenter's shop until He was 30. Then for 3 years, He was an inerrant Teacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never went to college. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where He was born. While He was still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away; one of them denied Him; another one betrayed Him. He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was cruelly nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying, His executioners gambled for the only thing He had on earth, his coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave. All the armies that ever marched. All the navies ever built. All the Parliaments that ever stood. And all the kings that ever reigned put together have not affected the life of man as powerfully as has this One Solitary Man.
     He never wrote a song, yet He has furnished the theme of more songs than all the songwriters combined. He never founded a college, yet all the schools together, cannot boast of as many students as He has. He never practiced medicine, yet He's healed more broken hearts than doctors have healed broken bodies.
     He was human and divine. He was God and He was man. He was just as much God as though never man and just as much man as though never God. He was so human that he got lonely and longed for human companionship, but He was so divine that He said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."