LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Tasters from the King's Table
Two children
In the first two chapters of Luke's gospel, two supernatural circumstances are narrated in which two children were born.
For those who knew them in their childhood, they were seemingly two normal children; however, the expectation of thousands of years and the attention of countless old prophecies were behind them and, what's more, the fulfillment of the eternal purpose of God in the world.
They were family according to the flesh, but they were very different in dignity. One was a chosen boy; the other was a special Boy. However, in their birth, the chosen boy was surrounded by more human honor than the special Boy. The inferior was born with more dignity than the greater.
The mother of the greater - being so young - didn't have the high estate of the lesser mother. (Who was a descendant of Aaron, the family of priests) His father according to the flesh was a simple carpenter, not a respected priest who could minister in the temple. His city was not the metropolis -Jerusalem-, but the dark village of Galilee.
It was the young mother who had recently conceived who ran to meet with the old mother in that city of the mountain. The greater went to the lesser. A short time before her Boy was born, she had to walk many kilometers to get to her ancestral city. And although Bethlehem was such a beloved village, when her Boy was born, no house was opened up to her.
However, God granted that dignity, which the young maiden and her Boy did not find in the earth, to him from the heavens. The Holy Spirit descended upon that young girl to engender the Boy in her womb, not upon the old mother. Then, when she went to the old mother's house, she was the one to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and her baby jumped in her womb. Later, the young girl received the shepherds with their testimony of the angels, and those gifts from the wisemen from the east for her Boy.
Finally, when the father of the other boy recovered his speech, it was the Greater babe of whom he first spoke; not of his son, recognizing that the younger Son was greater, not only than his own son, but greater than he himself, and all men, even though He was still a small Boy.