Jesus is in humanity’s corner. He is on our side against all dark angelic envy. He stands with us even against humanity’s strange contempt for itself, the odd and en vogue way we run our species down, even our unspoken hatred of ourselves.
Of all the exquisite and deep-down good things in creation, God crowns his creative work with us. Ponder that.
God not only invests humanity with the divine image but *becomes* human, becomes the flesh he handcrafts from clay.
And this should guide us in how we think about what it means to be human.
Two things stand out:
God does not become what is not inherently good and God does not become what God hates. Ponder those until they sink beneath your skin.
The divine solidarity with humanity is radical.
Jesus is not only in the corner of humanity but in every human’s corner *as* a fellow human who also happens to be God.
This God does not stand outside the human experience of suffering or death-bearing but enters our condition, makes our contingency his own.
There is no human with whom Jesus does not stand. Not one person. Not one!
Against every hurled accusation, every derision, and all that mocks our existence: famine, decay, murder disaster, disease, and death, Jesus has our back. Always.
Jesus stands with humanity and with *every* human person.
This makes us different from Jesus because we are not ready to stand with every human person against all comers and some of us have given up on humanity altogether. Some of us have given up on our own humanity.
What makes the solidarity of Christ unique is that our human brother Jesus is also God, the Word who in the beginning worded the cosmos into existence.
So Jesus stands with humanity against all that accuses us and belittles us and seeks to destroy us, and he does this as our human brother and as God.
Do you understand this?
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