Heir Condition

Here it is 6:26 am, pitch dark, Christmas morning. I can't sleep. I didn't sleep. I'm sleepy, yet sleepless. There could be a few possible reasons for this. One, I'm sick and have been with a terrible toothache which is making the left side of my head feel like it is being stretched across something much bigger than my head. Say an S.U.V. or a California King-sized bed. From sea to shining sea. Two, I'm not sleeping in my bed, but on my fiance's parent's couch. Which is comfortable, just foreign. Or three, I'm suppose to be up writing this. Or all three. Or none.

However, whatever, these are the conditions. And as I am lying here I hear the tick of a clock somewhere in the room. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick. This incessant sound sweeps me away to the story of some 2,000 years ago and reminds me of the significance of this day. Christmas. Now I realize Jesus wasn't born on this day exactly. He was probably born sometime in March. Like every good baby. A spring time baby. I'm just saying. The exact date isn't so important, but the conditions he was born into is.

Now besides Jesus being born in some unsanitary cave with animal excrement, animals, from a teenage girl and placed into a cesspool for bacteria feeding troth his overall socioeconomic conditions weren't so good either. He wasn't born into the best ethnicity. He was Jewish. And Jewish people back then were not very popular. "I wanna be popular!" That was for all my Wicked fans out there. Anyway. Sorry. Most Jews were slaves. He wasn't born into the best social class. In fact he was at the bottom of the barrel. A carpenter's son? Rah-ha-eeely? He wasn't born into the best family; hookers, adulterers, murderers, cheaters, thieves, ect. In fact if you know anything about his lineage you would say to yourself, "Rah-ha-eeely?" Seriously, you would. Lets just face it. Jesus' conditions here on earth sucked. Just like some of ours.

The list of conditions could and do go on and on and on. But Jesus doesn't let it. In fact he doesn't even acknowledge it. He realized they were there and he knows what he was born into, but Jesus also knew what his purpose was. And purpose trumps conditions every time. Did you know that we have the same purpose Jesus did? It's true. If we claim the name of Jesus and we live the life, or try to live the life he did, then we share the same purpose. And that is to bring God glory.

Some people's conditions are worse than others. However, we all still share the same purpose. Jesus rose above the conditions he was placed into and those he placed himself into. He depended on the power of the Holy Spirit to lead him and Jesus leads us to do the same. He empowers us to rise above the conditions we are placed into and those that we place ourselves into. Remember what the angel told Mary about her being preggo without having sex-o? "Nothing is impossible with God," Luke 1:37. So remember that today. Remember that today we celebrate the birth of a Savior. Remember Jesus. Remember that purpose trumps conditions. Every time. And remember to bring God glory! Make that today's mantra. Make that your life's mantra and emerge from...conditions.