Day 7 – Summary
As we conclude this week, looking at the lowly, we’ll go back to the beginning, to the conception. I suggest that Mary and Joseph are the first and best example of lives lived beautifully lowly.
Their social and economic status.
Their humility and willingness to submit to One greater for direction.
Their faith and faithfulness even when God didn’t seem to make sense.
Their apparent willingness to take a back seat to their son and his life.
Almighty God, the One whose name is “Holy”, chose to dwell, literally, in and with them!
Father, you still choose to make your home in the lowly. So, may I, may we choose to be in that place, more and more, day by day, little by little, and would you make yourself at home within us.
Enjoy the lyrics to this song by friends Don and Lori Chaffer from the musical, The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby.
Whose Baby is He? (as sung by Mary)
Maybe he wanted the mother of his son to be angry
Maybe he wanted the mother of his son to be poor
Maybe he wanted the mother of his son to trip up everyone
and make it easier to come undone
Maybe he needed all of them to wonder
Whose baby is he?
Maybe he wanted to make me an open door
so no one would think that they weren’t worthy anymore
So everyone could see someone as lowly as me
Call him my baby.
Maybe he wanted the father of his son to be on the outside
Maybe he wanted the father of his son to be unsure
Maybe he wanted the father of his son in front of everyone
to have his reputation come undone
Maybe he needed everyone to see
that sometimes you give up your honor for the sake of mercy
Maybe he chose you like he chose me
not for your power but for your humility
So everyone could see someone as lowly as you
call him their baby, too.
He wants everyone to call His son their baby.
