“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary?” Matthew 13:55 “Do not be afraid, … see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”
John 12:15
In elementary school I got the lead in our class play, The Ugly Duckling. But when my ugly duckling character was to appear as the beautiful swan, someone else took over the part! I love to tell that story and especially to recall the song we sang at the end: “It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a pig pen,/ if you’re really a swan.”
You might say there was something similar when Jesus Christ, the Lord of all creation, was born into His humble, lowly earthly family. Isaiah had prophesied about Him: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him” (53:2). He was just a carpenter’s son, yet He rode into Jerusalem a king. Hated and opposed, He rose as the King of kings!
As brothers and sisters of Jesus, we comprehend what “great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are” (1 John 3:1)! No matter what anyone says or thinks about us or may do to us, we are the most beautiful swans of all—the children of God!
You might say there was something similar when Jesus Christ, the Lord of all creation, was born into His humble, lowly earthly family. Isaiah had prophesied about Him: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him” (53:2). He was just a carpenter’s son, yet He rode into Jerusalem a king. Hated and opposed, He rose as the King of kings!
As brothers and sisters of Jesus, we comprehend what “great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are” (1 John 3:1)! No matter what anyone says or thinks about us or may do to us, we are the most beautiful swans of all—the children of God!
Scripture Focus
John 12:1-16
Insight
“I’m a child of the King,/ A child of the King,/With Jesus my Savior,/ I’m a child of the King.”(Harriet E. Buell, 1877)
Bible In A Year
- Joshua 7-8
- Psalm 100
- Acts 24-25
