The Adoration of the Shepherds, Charles LeBrun
Born outdoors, Jesus was the ultimate outsider, God’s rabble-rouser.
He never had any interest in being an “insider” with the powers-that-were. And he certainly had no interest in being the kind of king who lorded over his empire while his servants sat at his feet giving him pedicures and fetching his fine wine and cheese.
Imagine what the three magi, bearing their lavish gifts, must have thought when they finally reached what they expected to be a royal palace. They must have wondered what kind of strange king-to-be the baby in the manger was.
What are we to make of the strange fact that the only crown the new-born king was ever to wear was a crown of thorns?
That’s how God, whose ways are not our ways, works.
Go figure.
My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”
— Isaiah 55: 8, New Living Translation Bible
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