At Home in the Slums

Often I have focused on how Christ was out of place in the manger: that He deserved to be welcomed as a King, rather than ignored as a peasant. But Christ was at home with the outcasts: He came to be with them. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised”(Luke 4: 18). Had there been a “Triumphal Entry”, Christ would not have been accomplishing His purpose. He was not here to be celebrated, He was here to serve.