Posts

Showing posts from December 15, 2013

Blue Jean Jesus: Incarnation in Blue

Image
Is. 53:2 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. I am a Levi's blue jeans man. With the rivets. Always have been, the epitome of coolness. I have gradations in blue jeans for different uses--like a caste of clothes. I have work blue jeans for internal and house use when I am chilling and working, outside blue jeans for public viewing and interaction with fellow humans, and the elite "Skinny" blue jeans when I am attempting to be a Hipster, minus the explosive and expansive facial hair. What beards! I think Jesus would wear blue jeans if He was in the flesh walking around in the world today. He was a blue-collar carpenter, doing His final and best work on the wooden Cross. Nails, wood, work unto redemption, sweat of the brow, and anguish of the soul. Wearing blue jeans to Church on Sunday is an act of Sabbath. For some, wearing blue jeans on Sunday would remind of them of work. Not me, wearing a