Thought for the Day 12/26/2025

 Friday Tale - One Solitary Life

He was born in an obscure village.

He worked in a carpenter shop until he was about thirty.

He then became an itinerant preacher.

He never held an office.

He never had a family or owned a house.

He didn't go to college.

He had no credentials but Himself.

After preaching three years, the public turned against Him.

His friends ran away.

He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.

He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.

While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His clothing, the only property He had on earth.

He was laid in a borrowed grave.

Nineteen centuries have come and gone,

and today He is the central figure of the human race.

All the armies that ever marched,

all the navies that ever sailed,

all the parliaments that ever sat, and

all the kings that ever reigned

have not affected the life of man

on the earth as much as that

 ONE SOLITARY LIFE.

~ Unknown

Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 

 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

~ Philippians 2:8-11