Fully Man, Fully Savior

Today is a feast set aside to remember how Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem. The Law of God in Exodus 13:2 commands that every firstborn male be consecrated to the Lord. Further, Leviticus 12:1-8 commands that a woman after childbirth go through a period of purification for forty days and then offer a sacrifice of either a lamb or two turtledoves is a lamb was too expensive.

While is it important to know that the earthly parents of the Lord Jesus were pious, godly people, we see in this act of obedience far more than a ritual being fulfilled. We see the eternal Son of God taking His place under the Law, entering our human condition fully. Today’s text from Hebrews reminds us why this matters: Christ comes not only to live among us but to save us. He comes to take our place, to bear our burdens, and to make us holy in God’s sight.