In our last month on the race my team worked at Door of Hope Ministries in Johannesburg, South Africa. Door of Hope is an orphanage for babies that partners with a local adoption agency so the children can grow up with families as well as partners with the local police and hospitals so when a baby turns up that needs a home Door of Hope will provide. Our second night there this month the police showed up at the front door with a baby just a few days old that they had found in the bathroom at one of the malls, Door of Hope took her in without a question.
Being around all of these babies made me realize a few things about them. They are some of the most helpless beings I think I have ever met. They can’t clothe themselves, they can’t bathe themselves, feed themselves, wipe their own faces, they go the the bathroom in their pants several times a day and usually they have no control over their tiny little bodies; and when I started realizing these things about them and how helpless they really are God started opening my eyes. This is how Jesus came to us; as a completely helpless little baby. When He got here He had no control over anything, not even where He slept, and this is how He wanted it. He wanted to show us that He is the Savior who comes to us and gets on our level, not only so we can relate to Him and find true relationship with Him, but also so He can lift us up and bring us out of the misery of sin that we’d all been trapped in.
John chapter 11 tells us the story of the death of Lazarus. Jesus went to the family and He already knew that He would raise Lazarus from the dead but he did something first: “Jesus wept” (vs. 35). He had emotions, He wanted to show us that He will get down on our level and relate to us.
We have a relatable savior who wants a relationship with each and every one of us. He came here as a completely helpless baby, laid down His life for us and yet is someone who will laugh with us when it’s time to rejoice and weep with us when it’s time mourn. I am so glad to say that I have that relationship.
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God”. 1 John 3:1a
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