"...who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead..."

Paul's opening sentence in his letter to the Roman believers was an audacious heresy at the time, but is often taken for granted today. In my own thinking, Jesus' humanity is a given. He died, therefore he was human. And his divinity, although it takes faith to grasp, is no longer a mental leap for me. He raised himself from the dead, who other than God could do that?

I love that Jesus' status of both human and God was paramount to the earliest believers. It wasn't a background for "deeper" discussion, it was the starting point for everything they believed. It was the foundation of their personal faith, not a scholarly topic only discusses in seminaries.

I want to remember Jesus' humanity and divinity more often, appreciated more regularly in my own conversations about God, and never taken for granted in my relationship with him.