Week Four - Love

Jesus was born into a humble situation: family displaced, birth in a stable, Roman occupation. It didn’t get any better after his birth either, with his family becoming refugees in Egypt before finally resettling in the backwater town of Nazareth. But this is exactly how the Kingdom of God comes - not through military might, political power, or overwhelming argument. It comes in humility.

We might be tempted to mistake humility for weakness, but don’t be fooled. There is a power in the arrival of Jesus, humming just below the surface. That power is the love of God. A love that Isaiah described as zeal. It is love that drives God to move heaven and earth to rescue His people. And it was zealous love for his Father and for His people that moved Jesus throughout His life - confronting the powerful, comforting the weak, and ultimately standing in the place of every broken sinner who looks to Him and finds Him looking back at them with love. It is this powerful, overwhelming love of God that will ultimately bring a kingdom so vast it covers the entire earth. We wait with great anticipation for Jesus to return and bring us with Him into His never-ending rule, with perfect justice and prosperity beyond our wildest dreams. And all because He loves us.