Jesus Swag

In a conversation with my wife the other night, she mentioned that the current hotel where she is staying in Mexico City lacks swag. On the other hand, the "W" hotel in New York City apparently has mad swag. A black girl at school the other day called me "Mad Tall" so now I am using mad as a mega-modifier.

I went to the definitive Urban Dictionary to cop me a definition of swag since it is a word that we don't use much in my line of work with limited budgets, where we buy our own pens and paper to get stuff that actually works. We are swag-deprived. Here is the definition: appearance, style, or the way he or she presents themselves. The alternate definitions on Urban Dictionary get, let us say, more carnal as we descend down the page.

One of the paradoxical realities of the Gospel is that Jesus, God, the epitome of authority, power, and possessions, comes to earth as a man and forgoes His swag.

Philippians 2:7

Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form...

He is born in a manger, raised in a dusty backwards town, assumes the vocation of a traveling preacher and teacher with no place to rest his head, dies on a cross, and is put in another man's burial plot.

He is raised on the third day.

Philippians 2:9

Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names

Now, that is some mad swag.