Would Jesus have ridden the bus?
So I was riding along on a Greyhound bus the other day. I asked myself, would Jesus have traveled by bus? Would he have gone by jet? Would he have gone first class or coach? I don’t know. He spent a lot of time with the poor. But he spent a lot of time with the wealthy. He traveled rather slowly. I don’t know, he didn’t have much of a choice. But he could have instantly fashioned for himself a chariot. He could have teleported, or flown with the eagles he made. I don’t know. But we do know that whatever he did was purposeful, eternal, and redemptive. This does not mean he would value only the important, but that he lived in the mundane. This means that He got blisters along the way. He got bad breath, and he waited in line. Christ was fully God, but he was also fully human. This means that even the mundane had value. We arent’ just to travel from one high experience of life to another. We remain resolved, prayerful, faithful, and thankful, and live in the journey. But that means we value the pain along the way, for it teaches us obedience and more about our Lord.
He considered the journey with joy and walked the whole way to die for us. Not just as an example, but as the journey. That journey we accept by faith, which gives our journey hope in a world without hope. We can relish the high points, and praise Him in the low. It means…we should ride the bus.
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