I’m just sitting here and thinking on the wonder of our Heavenly Family’s absolutely deliberately undignified, unfettered expression of love for us.

Jesus was born in a common house with people and animals, purportedly disgracefully conceived out of wedlock (Luke 2:5-7).

As a baby, He fled as a refugee to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15).

He returned to live in Nazareth of ill repute, the idea of which was so ludicrous that Philip scoffed at it when He was invited to meet Jesus (Matthew 2:19-23; John 1:45-46).

By Jesus’ own words, “foxes had holes and birds had nests’” but He was homeless (Luke 9:58).

Jesus publicly prioritized relationship with the misunderstood, the miscreants, the misfits, (Luke 5:27-30) naked adulteress (John 8:3-9), short crooked tax man (Luke 19:1-10), free-loving foreign isolated water-seeking woman (John 5:4-42).

In the stories that demonstrated the recklessness of His Father’s love, Jesus compared Him to:
a woman – on hands and knees looking desperately for her one lost precious coin (Luke 15:8-10).

a shepherd – making His way through thick brush and muddy ditches to find one lost sheep (Luke 15:4-7).

a freedom-loving, choice-giving father who ran with unceremonious joy to meet and embrace his wayward bedraggled son (Luke 15:11-24).

an understanding father seeking out his envious, pouting son (Luke 15:25-32).

Jesus, the Son of God, did not measure His value by the standards of men who hoarded wealth and influence, and who were willing to ignore the bloody, bruised, and broken to protect these moth-riddled, rusty treasures. In fact, He called people to abandon this intentionally blind scarcity mindset to live in the faith-filled certainty of compassionate abundance (Luke 10:30-37).

Jesus knew whom He was, a man of infinite grace and mercy, royalty in rags, who had given away everything that He owned to ensure that the praying pompous poor, and the wise consciously needy both had access to everlasting life (Luke 18:9-14).

Jesus was full gangsta revolutionary loving, and I am here and grateful for it (John 3:16-17).