Reading: Luke 3:21-38<\/b><\/p>\n
This is a difficult portion to read without having the mind glaze over and wander. (I suppose it would be much more interesting if I could quickly associate a little personal history with each name.)<\/p>\n
“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli”<\/font><\/b> (23).<\/p>\n Then it struck me: Jesus is one end and Adam is the other.<\/p>\n Jesus fathered no sons. No children at all, in fact. He left no physical line of descendants. The geneology is closed and final. No more sons.<\/p>\n That was the plan.<\/p>\n Being human with all the accompanying needs, drives and emotions, I don’t doubt Jesus was tempted to adapt (that is, abandon) the original plan. But He didn’t, even though surely there were times He really wanted a wife and a child. Or at least a woman.<\/p>\n So this difficult reading leads me to further gratitude for Jesus’ self-denial.<\/p>\n For me.<\/p>\n What (and how much) would I give up for Him?<\/p>\n Will my gratitude go that deep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading: Luke 3:21-38 This is a difficult portion to read without having the mind glaze over and wander. (I suppose it would be much more interesting if I could quickly associate a little personal history with each name.) “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-73","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}