Jesus, God’s Son
God called him ”My beloved son”.
Biologically we are all the sons or daughters of two other people; that’s the nature of life. But for most of us sonship or daughterhood means more than biological begetting as important as that is. When I say I am the daughter of Yandell and Mary Page I feel the warmth of my childhood, the expectations of my upbringing, the presence of various homes in which we lived, and the knowledge of being, love, and identity. My specific daughterhood is an important measure of who I am. Yours may be very different but you are the son or daughter of _______, a relationship that means something. Adoption, rearrangement of family ties as a result of death or divorce, absence of parents, and all the modern definitions of family, change the who, how, and impact of the sonship or daughterhood, but not its existence.
Many of us also see ourselves as children of God. The Creator created humanity in such a way that we are made in the image of and intended for communion with God. The ancient Hebrews describe their relationship with God in ways that seem similar to the ways in which children and parents relate—God encourages, God has compassion, God corrects and punishes, God is present and God is absent. Being connected with the Ground of all Being, as a child is connected to a parent, is both frightening and affirming for me. Seeing life as coming not only from the biological reality of conception and birth, but also from the loving intention and energy of the Almighty demands of me sacred living.
God called Jesus my beloved son. To hear these words from the source of all must have profoundly impacted him. His life was one that was at one with God—an at-one-ment for all.
How will you take to heart these words of God to Jesus?
Jesus, God’s beloved, let me know the one who calls you son. Amen.
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