This is a super delayed blog entry that should have been posted before Christmas. Enjoy it anyway 🙂

Every first Sunday of the month I help out with my mom in Kid’s Church.  For this particular season the topic is about Christmas and for this particular week the topic is about Mary’s obedience after the angel Gabriel revealed to her that she will be the mother of the Savior of the word.

While I was explaining to the 4 – 6 year old kids about the implications of Jesus’ birth to mankind, a five year old girl suddenly raised her hand and asked:

“Why did God chose Jesus?”

I was taken aback.

The question seemed innocent and easy to answer but while I was thinking about it afterwards, the question revealed life-changing truths.

> God “chose” Jesus because he is God. (Philippians 2:6-7 and numerous verses from the bible support this truth). Having said that Jesus is God attaches all the attributes of God (omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscient, infinite, eternal, pure, holy, transcendent, etc..).

> Jesus is man in its purest form. A man who has been tempted in every way (Hebrews 4:15 and numerous verses also support this truth), faced trials and oppositions, has emotions, gets hurt, angry, tired., limited to time, space and energy. A real man. A man who knows exactly what we are going through. Someone who can relate, immanent, close.

>Jesus is God-Man. That is 100% God, 100% human, not a hybrid but someone who retained all the “God-ness” and “man-ness” in one being. The profound mystery of this is very hard to grasp. To save us from our sins someone has to mediate, someone has to relate.

> Jesus is the only Son of God. No one else could suffice. No one else could d the job of saving our sins. No one else could express the  ultimate love, no one else could redeem the honor and glory of God, no one else was willing, no one was qualified, no one was able except Jesus.

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.” Romans  5:6-7 (NIV)

If only the kid knew the depth of her question asked out of hr innocence. She was putting into words the unsaid questions we have in our lives:

Why Jesus?

Why worship Him?

Why Him over the other gods and religions?

Why celebrate his birthday?

Why obey him ?

Why make him the ruler/master of my life?

It’s amazing how all these thoughts: the overcoming gratefulness I felt, the desire to worship Jesus more suddenly “came upon” me in 5 seconds.

Her question is humbling to how familiar a person may be about the Jesus-story, the salvation-story, the How-to -get-to-heaven story that we fail to stand amazed at how vast our God is.

My prayer is that you may give a thought to your life. Give a thought to your “God”, give a thought to  your “Jesus”.

A wrong view of God is a wrong view of life ( for everything came and will end in Him).

A wrong view of Jesus is a wrong view of God ( for Jesus is the ultimate revelation of who God is).

Familiarity with Jesus and his cross is a sign of sin, a sign of Pride. The truth is: We will never fully understand who God is.

It is a constant revelation, an ongoing relationship, a unique approach.

May we never go familiar with Jesus and his cross and resurrection.

P.S.: I don’t really know if I answered the right one but I said: “God chose Jesus because Jesus is the only Son of God.”

How about you? How will you answer?