Found as a Man

Have you ever considered what it must have been like for God...the Almighty, Creator of the universe, Alpha and Omega, ...to come to earth in human form? To separate from His heavenly being to become a man? To live in a place where perfection is the status quo and not the goal.  To live where sin never exists, hatred and jealousy are extinct and then to come to earth as an infant and be born in a stable, to an unwed mother, into - essentially - a blended family where his father, Joseph, would hopefully love Him as his own child though He was not.  To be "different" from the beginning.  Did He grow for nine months with the essence of God in the womb or did that not happen until Christ emerged from the womb.  Was He wise from the very beginning? He never sinned so He must have been the easiest child to raise in that family and I am sure amazed His mother.  The two mothers, Mary and Elizabeth, what did they think about these two children who were so very different from the rest of the children?  John the Baptist is said to have lived in the desert as a child (Luke 1:80) until he appeared publicly to Israel.  These mothers knew they had special men who were destined only for service to God and were God sent, God indwelled and for Christ, God Himself!  Amazing.

Philipians 2:5-11 is Paul talking to the church at Philippi about being like-minded with Christ and emulating Him. He states that Christ, "who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped."  How humble a perspective that is that Christ, who is God, realizes His inequality with God in human form. "..but made  himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." He knew He was God's Son but also knew, in that human form that He was set apart from His heavenly Father.  What a separation that must have been mentally for Jesus Christ as He came from God, was God and yet was in human form a Son, in a submissive position.  Paul goes on to say "And being found in appearance as a man," which I find interesting as it is almost like He woke up and found Himself in human form one day.  I can imagine that, in that infant form He woke up and looked at His hands and feet and moved around a little like newborns do and thought to Himself,  "huh!  so this is what it feels like to be an infant!"  I wonder if He was a little surprised by the limits of the infant body and the process of growing and actually being inside the body that is changing, developing, maturing.