Philippians 2:9-11  Therefore God exalted him even more highly and gave him the name that is above every other name, so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Jesus Christ does not come home empty-handed. Through the depths of suffering, trial and death on the cross, he brings humanity into reconciliation with God. When the victorious Lord sits upon the throne of glory, he has brought home with him all those strays whom he now prizes as his own kin and kind - the lost and alienated, the forgotten and abandoned, "the least of thee" that could not find their way home if their life depended on it (Matthew 25:40). And all these are welcomed home in the Father's grace.

In fact, it is those who thumb their noses at the weak and lowly who seem to disregard Christ's promise of glory the most. Such neglect makes its appearance in our prejudice and pride, setting aside the presence of God's glory. But Jesus comes for one and all. God alone is to be praised for the coming glory, but God's glory never comes alone. With Jesus, there comes a whole holy host of the world's most vulnerable. And God the Father, who so oved the world that he sent his only Son, accepts them all.

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