Topics:<\/b> Advent; Christmas; God\u2019s Love; Grace; Help; Human Worth; Incarnation; Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Luke 2:6\u20137; 15:11\u201324; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:17<\/p>\n
I love ribs, so when I heard about a restaurant that had amazing ribs, a bunch of my friends and I drove fifty minutes to get there. The place was packed, and the food was great. It was \u201call-you-can-eat rib night,\u201d and rib bones were piling up as fast as the line to get in.<\/p>\n
Eating ribs is messy business. Barbecue sauce gets on your face, fingers, and clothes. Dirty napkins pile up next to half-eaten bowls of baked beans and coleslaw. When our crew had eaten all we could, we paid our tab and waddled out to the car.<\/p>\n
I reached into my pocket for my keys and came up with nothing but lint. Panicking, I looked through the window at the ignition. I hoped that I had locked my keys in the car, because in the back of my mind a more disgusting possibility was taking shape. When I saw that the ignition was empty, I knew exactly where my keys were\u2014to my car, my house, and my office. Only seconds earlier, those precious keys had slid off my tray and followed a half-eaten corncob and many bones to the bottom of a trash can. I had thrown away my keys on all-you-can-eat rib night.<\/p>\n
My friends weren\u2019t going to do the dirty work for me. So I dove into the dumpster, fishing through bones, beans, barbecue, corn, cake, coleslaw, and a host of saliva-soaked napkins. A shiny layer of trash can slime coated my arms before I finally grabbed those precious keys.<\/p>\n
As I meditate on the incarnation this Christmas season, I think about our dumpster-diving God. I mean no disrespect by calling him that. On the contrary, I have a soaring adoration for the infinite God who left a pristine, sinless heaven to search through the filth and rubbish of this fallen world for something precious to him\u2014me.<\/p>\n
\u2014David Slagle, Decatur, Georgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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