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We can
infer that His earthly siblings must have ostracised Him as they would have
most likely felt ashamed to be associated with Him.
We have
the approval of God and that is all that matters.
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How could a Virgin birth
be possible? Mary herself asked that
same million-dollar question (Luke 1:34-35).
The notion of a virgin birth is too far-fetched for our feeble
human minds to fully comprehend.
In fact, Jesus suffered humiliation for His miraculous
birth. This can be seen from Mark 6:3:
Is this not the carpenter, [a]the son of Mary, and the
brother of [b]James and Joses and [c]Judas and Simon? Are
His sisters not here with us?” And they were [deeply] offended by Him [and their
disapproval blinded them to the fact that He was anointed by God as the
Messiah].
Footnotes:
- Mark 6:3 This question was
intended as an insult because a Jewish man was never referred to as his
mother’s son even if she was a widow.
- Mark 6:3 James
later became a leader in the Jerusalem church and authored the epistle of
James.
c.
Mark 6:3 Heb Judah,
authored the epistle of Jude.
I say this reverently.
Growing up, Jesus was most probably labeled an illegitimate child
born out of wedlock. That would imply His earthly mother was promiscuous and
the father, a cuckold!
Imagine God the Son came in human form and allowed Himself to
be so debased by the very people He came to rescue (Philippians 2:4-11).
Yet He scorned the shame for the joy of saving us (Hebrews
12:2).
Why did He do that?
Love.
Today, we look away from all that distracts towards the love
of God for us that is in Christ Jesus (Hebrews 12:2).
And as we behold Jesus, we are being transformed from glory
to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18).
As we learn to disregard what others think of us, we are
weaning ourselves from approval addiction.
When we try to win the approval of others, we open ourselves
to manipulation.
For that matter, our personal approval or otherwise of people
and things may well blind us to what God is doing in our lives. This can be seen from Mark 6:3.
The Bible exhorts us to be quick to listen, slow to speak and
slow to get angry (James 1:19).
Do not be too quick to judge because what we know is
incomplete and we can’t even completely articulate that incomplete knowledge
(Matthew 7:1-5, 1 Corinthians 4:3-5; 13:9-13).
The footnote to Matthew 7:1 explains that it is not a
prohibition to use the word of God, common sense and moral courage to discern
right from wrong.
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