midweek musings

1st Peter 2:1-17a Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrific

Often, we forget the humanity of Jesus. We like the God side. We want to think of Jesus knowing everything—you know the omniscient part of God. We like to think that in addition to healing the sick that Jesus could walk in your home and fix your computer, adjust the washing machine so it stops that rumble during the spin cycle and make the lawn mower crank on the first pull like it did when you bought it 15 years ago. The truth is that because Jesus was fully human, he contin