"ONE OF US" - God walked this Earth!!!

" If God had a name, What would it be

Cartoon: Baby Jesus, Mary & Joseph at stable with livestock

and would we call it to His face
If you were faced with Him in all His glory?
What would you ask if you had just one question?

And yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?"
Lyrics to Jane Osborne's "One of Us" single.

You'll find all sorts of criticisms on this song. Some call it a challenge to humans to think of God as a person living on this planet, instigating a reverence for humanity assuming they reverence God. Others claim it was a pagan attempt to discredit the existence of God reducing Him to a mere mortal...but does either argument matter? The existence of God is a fact only real to mankind by virtue of faith.

Tell me, how else does the sun come up and go down, subsequently alerting the moon to do the opposite? How else do the waves of the sea come into dry land enough to just get our feet wet and then graciously roll in tide back into the mass waters; anything different proving catastrophic? How else does the air we breathe keep its existence promising to never to go extinct? There has to be a hand behind all these familiar yet wondrous acts. Maybe this person is who we call God.
What if He really is the slob or the stranger on the bus? I mean Jesus did say, "Whatsoever you do to the least of your brothers that you do unto me". An acclamation that he harbors existence on this planet through each and every one of us. Maybe we do look at His face and experience His glory even in the simple action of looking in the mirror. The simplicity yet complexity of His nature is mind blowing.

A King shows His splendor by stepping down from His throne to become like His subjects. It is amazing how inconsistency only proves His consistence in being ALL POWERFUL. The idea made marvelous in its irony. The Awe in the expect d's presentation in an unexpected way.

'The Cattle are lowing, the baby awakes
but little Lord Jesus no crying He makes"

A babe in the arms of a woman in the middle of stable surrounded by livestock, probably unaware of the great privilege in the experienced in the birth of Emmanuel.

"Oh come oh come Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel"



Penzi Amani, Gospel Artist/blogger
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This baby boy would be the deliverance of the nation Israel which would consist of not only the traditional Jews but also those who would be grafted to the stem by simple act of belief. "For God so loved the world He gave His only Son that whomever believed in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. " (John 3:16)  and Yes He was one of us. Made to experience humanity in being human. He learned and walked in our ways, his lesson it is possible to fulfill destiny even though a human working against the numerous perils that come with the flesh.

"Gloria in excelsis deo (Glory in the Highest)"

The ambience at the praise of the King finally in His walk towards Glory which would be continued in 247 praise when He finally comes back home from conquering all.
So yes He did walk among us. If humans are generally slobs, He was a slob like one of us. Just as humans are strangers, He was a stranger on this bus of life. But He did not just try, He made it home. In making it home He made a way for us to get home. I remember a song we sang often in middle school

"God will make a way, where the seems to be no way, He works in ways we cannot see...God will make a way"

In executing a strange sequence of unequivocal  events He levelled the plains and made a clear pathway for us to get home. AMAZING!!!

"For God so loved the world He gave His only Son that whomever believed in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. " (John 3:16)
So do you believe???


Penzi Amani