I heard this quote today in a sermon, it stopped me in my tracks. I keep coming back to it and reading it over and over again. Such lofty implications on who we are and how we live our own lives!

“He was the meekest and lowliest of all the sons of men, yet he spoke of coming on the clouds of heaven with the glory of God.  He was so austere that evil spirits and demons cried out in terror at his coming, yet he was so genial and winsome and approachable that the little ones loved to play with him and nestle in his arms.  His presence at the innocent gayety of a village wedding was like the presence of sunshine.  No one was half so kind or compassionate to sinners, yet no one spoke such red-hot scorching words about sin.  A bruised reed he would not break, his own life was love, yet on one occasion he demanded of the Pharisees how they ever expected to escape the damnation of hell.  He was a dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions, yet for sheer stark realism he has all of our self-styled realists soundly beaten.  He was the servant of all, washing the disciples’ feet, yet masterfully he strode into the temple and the hucksters and money-changers fell over one another in their mad rush to get away from the fire they saw blazing in his eyes.  In the end he saved others, but at last himself he did not save.  There is nothing in history like the union of contrasts that confronts us in the Gospels.  The mystery of Jesus is the mystery of divine personality.” -James Stuart

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