Paradoxes about Jesus

Tonight my wife and I went with friends to see the candlelight processional at Disney, with the readings being done by Gary Sinese. It was very cool, a great show and performance, Gary's a great narrator. I loved the whole show except for one little paragraph from the script that like watered down everything they had read and sang up to that point about Jesus and Christmas. Except for that part, it was a great show, glorifying Christ and focused on Him.

One part of the script, toward the end of the show, includes an excerpt from a sermon by a guy named James Allan Francis:

"Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself."

As I listened to this, I could think of how the opposite, or parallel (what's the right word?) idea was true of each of the statements:

"He never owned a home."--He is the builder and owner of heaven itself, the universe cannot contain Him.

"He never wrote a book."--His book is the number one best seller of all time, written over centuries, by many authors, but all under direction of his Spirit, his very breath (2 Timothy 3:16).

"He never had an office."--He is our Prophet, Priest, and King all in one. He is our advocate before the Father.

"He never had a family."--We are his children, sons and daughters.

"He never went to college."--At 12 he was teaching the college professors all about the stuff they were experts in.

"He never put his foot inside a big city."--Jerusalem is big in importance in Scripture. Heaven seems like a pretty big city according to Rev. 21.

"He never traveled 200 miles from the place he was born."--Until he ascended to the throne of his Father in heaven.

"He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness."--Hmmmm....how about reading the gospels?

I guess you could say what was not known to be true of him by those who saw Him on earth, we now know by faith and reading of His word. So the last sentence is a fitting end: "He had no credentials but Himself."