Jesus identified himself with humanity—in all of our weakness and fragility. He did not arrive fully mature, on a white horse in Jerusalem. He took on a human nature at every stage of development—from “embryo” to “fetus” to infant to child to man. He was conceived as an orphan—without initially a human father—and was dependent for his very life on an adopting father who was willing to sacrifice his own life-plan to protect him and to provide for him (Matt. 2:13–15). He lived as a migrant refugee in a foreign land, a land long hostile to his own. He died helplessly convulsing on a cross,
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