Jesus, the Incarnation

Today’s reading at Mass was about God creating Eve from the rib of Adam, because Adam was lonely without one of his own ‘kind’. While this is a reading about marriage, it’s also about human relationships. That fits well with my readings from “Consoling the Heart of Jesus.” Bear with me while I try to express a mystery so great that I am sure my words will fail me.

God became man. A mercy beyond all mercies. God who needs nothing, lowered himself to a state of mortal needs. As we see from Adam, he ‘needs’ human companionship. God sees that it is not good for mankind to be alone, so he makes another human to have a bond… a friendship with. God became incarnate in a mortal body, he became one who needs bonds.. needs friendship. For us. For YOU. He, the all powerful, omniscient, omnipotent.. became defenseless. He became a babe in his mothers arms. A child unable to feed or clothe himself. A person in need of love, friendship, camaraderie. All this he did that we might be able to relate and exchange our own love with him.. that we might be able to experience that two way street of needing each other.

I often hear people say God does not need us, but I think it would be more accurate to say: God did not need us. The he chose to become incarnate… vulnerable., who who needs so that we might have the great honor of being ‘needed’ by God…

Do you realize that you are so important to him? So very important that God chose to need you?

Understanding that Jesus being in the incarnate word of God, had potential access to all the knowledge in the universe: past, present and future… yet being also fully man possessed a fully human mind…. a mind that as we have experienced in our own humanity is unable to contain that much knowledge.. brings to mind the thought that Jesus only had in his mind what was necessary for his mission. “He while being of the same estate as God, did not think equality something to be grasped; so he emptied himself.” He chose YOU. Think of that… He considered YOU to be vital to his mission.. the knowledge of you, while on the cross.. he thought of YOU.

I have a friend who talks about spoon theory. Spoon theory is the thought that each person only has so many spoons in a day. Some may have a lot, but those who don’t have much energy, that are sick or hurting… might only have a few spoons. So you take the spoons out one at a time.. and when the spoons are gone? Your day is done.. your spent…

Jesus chose you as one of his spoons.