Written by Uli Chi, a contemporary business leader, writer, teacher, and mentor.
To believe that Jesus is God is a challenge for those who are not Christians, but not so much for Christians; it’s a given. But coming to terms with Jesus being fully human has always been a stretch, even for believers. Of course, Jesus is sinless. He is God, after all. Could Jesus walk on water? Of course, he could; he is God, after all. Could Jesus really have failed at the temptations in the desert? Of course not! He is God, after all. And so it goes. Of course, Jesus is God, but how human is he really? So, perhaps like me, you wonder about Jesus’ humanity more than you do about his divinity…[In the Gospels,] Jesus becomes the kind of human being God always intended. In that sense, Jesus becomes the new “Adam.” Jesus isn’t just perfect because he didn’t break God’s law—although He didn’t, of course. Jesus is perfect in a larger sense because he is precisely the kind of human being God imagined when God created humanity. Jesus becomes the mature human being that God had in mind from the beginning… God, through Jesus and by the Holy Spirit, intends the same for us: To become the mature human beings that God had in mind from the beginning…Each of us as individual Christians – and indeed our Christian community as a whole – is to grow up and become fully human, as God originally intended. To reiterate, becoming a mature Christian means becoming fully human, just as Jesus was. That’s a helpful reminder for those of us who tend to think of Christian maturity as merely becoming more “spiritual.” Growing up with Jesus means discovering and developing all aspects of our humanity. Just like Jesus.
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him. [Luke 2:39-40]
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