Jesus

God appeared not with trumpets sounding and the hoofbeats of horses, not with great armies at His command, but in the person of Jesus who had nothing. When He was born, He was born in a borrowed manger - a feeding trough. When He rode into town in Jerusalem in fulfillment of Scripture, He rode on a borrowed donkey. And when He was buried, He was buried in a borrowed tomb. He was a true radical with His message for the poor. He kicked over the tables of the money changers in the Temple, signaling that the old system of sacrifice associated with the Temple was now out of business. He was not a white Anglo-Saxon, so commonly pictured in the West; He was an olive skinned Semite born in the Middle East - a man for all seasons, a suffering servant, not ashamed to call the despised His brothers and sisters, nor to bear the sins we keep secret.

The Faith, Charles Colson and Harold Ficket