“Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon?” —Mark 6:3
Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, when He was in Mary’s womb, when He was a baby in a manger, when He was a toddler playing with neighborhood friends, and when He was cutting lumber and sweeping sawdust in Joseph’s workshop. He didn’t transform from humanity to deity when He performed His first public miracle. He had been God-in-the-flesh all along.
What then do we make of those eighteen years of manual—and some would say menial—labor? What did His work as a carpenter have to do with showing us the Father (John 14:8)?
Though fuller evidence that Jesus was the Messiah would certainly come through His miraculous works and astounding teaching, part of His divine mission was being accomplished amidst the sweat and sawdust of a common man doing common things—so that common men and common women would know that He had come for them.
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Make it Personal
Read Hebrews 4:15. What might Jesus have experienced in the first eighteen years of his life on earth that helped Him share in our humanity?