"Absurdity in the Flesh"

“You mean to tell me God became a baby…?”
“Yes, that is what I mean to say.”
“And then, he was raised in a blue-collar home? He never wrote any books or helds any offices, yet he called himself the Son of God?”
“That is right.”
“And this crucifixion story?”
“That’s correct.”
“And all this was to prove that God still loves his people and provides a way for us to return to him?”
“Right.”
“Doesn’t that all sound rather…absurd?”
“Yes. Yes, I suppose it does sound absurd, doesn’t it?”

My Sunday school Jesus had been taken down from the flannel board. What God did makes sense. It can be taught, charted, and put in books on systematic theology.

However, why God did it is absolutely absurd. That type of love doesn’t have a drop of logic nor a thread of rationality.

And yet, it is that very irrationality that gives the gospel its greatest defense. For only God could love like that.

How absurd to think that such nobility would go to such poverty to share such a treasure with such thankless souls.

But he did.

~ Excerpt from God Came Near,
“Absurdity in the Flesh,” Max Lucado