Jesus was both fully God and fully man. Sometimes we forget that knowing his human side is perhaps just as important as knowing His divine one.
Today some Christ-followers believe that we have somehow cheapened the value of the One we worship by making Him more “accessible” as a human being. That is only the case if we forget that the One who truly is our friend is simultaneously also our Master, the Ruler of the universe. If we know Him first in a spirit of reverence for His Deity we can then also know Him as a human being, not a pious caricature of one.
It may actually enhance our love for, the “God-Man” to think of him walking with His twelve friends along a dusty Judean road telling a good joke and joining in the laughter His Father designed all men to enjoy. The only thing such a thought “cheapens” is our false piety and, if that is the case, let it be.
What really matters is strengthening our connection to the One who became one of us and pondering the full humanity of Jesus Christ might do just that.
“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man…” Philippians 2:5-8 (NIV)
