Have you ever stopped to marvel that 90 percent of Jesus Christ’s earthly life could be described much like ours? He spent roughly thirty of His thirty-three years living a largely ordinary life: being submissive to sinful parents, maturing, living, working, building relationships, studying and teaching the Scriptures, loving people, and loving God. We’d be simpletons to believe that a God who so obviously orchestrated His Son’s birth and public ministry down to the minutest detail would leave the bulk of His life to happenstance. No, Christ’s obscurity was as purposefully planned—and equally
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