The Nazarene

anyone still remembers this song ?

I was doing my QT this morning when i was reminded of this song and its lyrics.

The Nazarene had come to live the life of every man
And he felt the fascination of the stars
And as he wandered through this weary world
He wondered and he wept
For there were so few who would listen to his call

He came, he saw, he surrendered all
So that we might be born again
And the fact of his humanity was there for all to see
For he was unlike any other man
And yet so much like me

The Nazarene could hunger and the Nazarene could cry
And he could laugh with all the fullness of his heart
And those who hardly knew him
And those who knew him well
Could feel the contradiction from the start

Caesar has a famous saying which goes "I came, I saw, I conquered." It was sort of his motto. or was it Napolean... hahha.. this isnt important la. the main point is
Caesar was finally conquered and he who was the defeater became the defeated.

Jesus, who possessed infinitely greater power, lived his life by a strange and unexpected twist of Caesar's saying. Jesus lived by the motto, "I came, I saw, I surrendered."

By living out this unorthodox pronouncement Jesus demonstrated what the world regards highly as power is really impotence and that true victory is only possible through absolute surrender even upon death of oneself.

His humanity was part of that surrender. Understanding the humanity of Jesus was no problem for the first disciples. There he was, toally human standing amongst them, eating, sleeping, laughing and crying. A 100% man, just like them.

His claims to divinity were the problem for the very first believers.

"I am", Jesus would say, appropriating to himself the name of God which no one else claims.

They fell down in Gethsemane when he said it.
More than once they picked up stones to stone him for his seeming blasphemy.
His humanness was evident thru the bleeding and the bruises and it is the greatest barrier to seeing his divinity, for he was fully human.

Not half man and half God but fully man and at the same time fully God.

Today it's not the divinity of Jesus that presents the problem, it’s his humanity. Our confession that Jesus is God the Son presents little problem for the believer because in many ways Jesus seems separated from us as God. Unlike with the first disciples, Jesus is not physically present, standing on two good legs before us, though in a more real sense our faith tells us He is present.

Our struggle today is to grasp the humanity of Jesus as evidently seen in our daily struggles to portray him.

Some earlier writers show us a Jesus who walks three inches off the ground, who cuts through temptation like a hot knife through butter. It’s hard to say which portrayal is worse. Most present someone so unlike the Jesus we see in the gospels, who was very human and very God, who was one moment thoroughly mired in the mundane and the next radiant with the glory of God.

The point is we, along with those first believers, are caught up in a dilemma.

We believe the unbelievable.
We follow a man who is God. Who conquers by allowing himself to be conquered and bids us follow the same way.

What are your thots?

PS: i know my writing for this post seems abit scattered. but i do hope u know what i m writing abt