Lineage is important. It tells us something about a location, a thing, or a person. When we look at lineage, we take into account history, and often that makes a difference.
For example, let’s look at how the size and latitude of a country can be significant. The British Isles are the size of the state of Kansas in the United States. Yet, Kansas has never garnered a world empire nor hosted the ire of an enemy nation bent on world domination. The latitude of the Isles is so far north that we have to go to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands for a comparison. Yet, we don’t think of England as a particularly cold country.
It is location that has made that small country historically significant. How? The British Isles are: 1. an island nation and 2. warmed by the Gulf Stream. Those two things have enabled this small country to put its stamp on the entire world, to create a lineage that still affects hundreds of millions of humans worldwide.
What about things, as in cars? Lineage makes all the difference here, too. Volvo has a track record for safety, and we trust the brand name to keep us safe. Innovation? We turn to Mercedes. Phenomenal handling on the road? There is none other than BMW. Value for the money takes us directly to the Kia showroom. We trust these brands to give us these things because they have done so in the past, and that has built up trust in their products.
God knows this principle. When a person has a lineage, it tells something about him. Someone who springs out of nowhere lacks credence, and we will struggle to accept him as valid. It is the person with a history that we will believe in without question or doubt.
That is why God went out of his way to give Jesus an amazing and widely substantiated lineage, one that no one could doubt, and one that would be accepted without question. When we find Jesus’ father, we find who Jesus really is.
Who’s your daddy, Jesus? That’s the question the Bible answers unequivocally over hundreds of pages of text and over thousands of years of history.
Joseph, of course, parented him as a child, but there is oh, so much more. When we roll back the layers of Jesus’ lineage, we find such names as David, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Isaiah 7:14 says “the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call his name Immanuel.”
God was Jesus’ literal daddy.
What a lineage! The amazing thing is that God invites us to join in. When we come to the cross, we become a son of the King. We become one with the Christ. We become a child of God. We acquire the literal lineage of Jesus.
Now who’s our daddy? The eternal God of all creation? He can be, if we give our hearts to him. That’s all he wants from us, for his creation to come to him in love and adoration. He wants to love us back, as a good father loves his children. He wants to be our daddy.
When we come to the cross, we become the child of the best daddy in the universe. We have found our true father.
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