Daily devotion – that first breathe
Luk 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Where the Bible is silent on a matter so too must we be also. We wonder how much Jesus knew at the time of His birth. We know that He grew up like any other child in many ways, but without a sinful nature.
The Bible tells us that Jesus grew in physical strength, and He grew in wisdom.
A little bit later, we read that Mary and Joseph found Jesus, at the age of twelve, sitting in the temple with the religious teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions – Luke 2:46
These verses would appear to be saying that Jesus went through a learning process like anyone else, yet at the same time, He did not have the limitations of sin in His life. Perhaps He knew a lot more than we will ever know.
We won’t know for certain until we get to Heaven. But that first night in Bethlehem, when Jesus woke and took His first breath on earth, it was the smell of a stable on a cold night that filled His nostrils. Against His baby skin there rubbed the coarseness of the material, and the rags in which He was wrapped.
What a night that first Christmas night must have been! A rude awakening, yet as sad as it is to think about all this, it is the reality of how Jesus came.
Deity took on humanity.
God became a man.
From Heaven’s throne to Bethlehem.
He would not only breathe our air, He would feel our pain, He would know our sorrow, and He would die for our sins– but – He would rise from the grave and make eternal life possible for all who would receive Him!