The Circumcision
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. - Lk 2, 21
I suspect they're going to wait to focus on the Presentation in the Temple around the time of that feast day. But even on this brief scripture there are things to consider. How important it is for us to adhere to what God has revealed as his plan. Though the religious requirement for this tradition has been fulfilled in Jesus, it seems appropriate for Jesus to live under the law if he was going to fulfill it. There is a humility which we often lack in assuming that our own circumstances absolve us of our need to be obedient.
For instance, if someone with whom we are bound in love - covenantally or otherwise - says something that hurts us, the love we continue to bear for them is not mere obligation to which we merely pay lip service or even disregard. Rather God's love in us can carry us through our hurt to continue to respond genuinely to them as we simultaneously deal with our own feelings in an honest and healing way.
Jesus - Yeshua - so named because he delivers his people from our sins, by doing so has shown us how to respond in love rather than in kind when we are hurt.
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