“God declares that he is not too good, not too proud, for my dustiness.” (Daniel J. Stulac)
God gets dirty. He’s never “holier-than-thou. He gets right into the mess, works alongside, stirring up the dust and the dirt. He doesn’t keep himself clean and set apart. His clothes get just as dirty as yours. He sits in the ashes beside you, weeping with you, then pulling you up to rebuild and restore. He doesn’t bark directions from afar. He doesn’t yell, “Clean up your mess before you come. Take a shower or keep your distance.” No. Look at his feet, They’re calloused and chapped and caked in mud. Look at his hands, stiff and rough and stained, open and blistered and bleeding and reaching. Embracing you, right where you are, in the middle of the muck and mire. Walking with you through the morass, step by step, by your side, and never a step ahead.
“When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death. (Philippians 2:8-9, MSG)
“He used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became your healing.” (1 Peter 2:24, MSG)
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