“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, ‘What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?’ ‘The son of David,’ they replied. He said to them, ‘How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him “Lord”? For he says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ If then David calls him “Lord,” how can he be his son? No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.” Matthew 22:41-45

Dear Jesus, You didn’t need the affirmation, but they needed the information. They never dreamed that Messiah would be both man and God at the same time. So, you pointed them to their own Bible to teach them that you weren’t just claiming this for yourself. It was intrinsic to the entire plan to save humanity. God the Son would become flesh and do what we could never do; offer himself as the perfect sacrifice for all people. Old King David saw this 1000 years before it happened and called you Lord! When I look at my flawed, aging body, it’s hard for me to imagine that you had one of these just like mine. You are God and yet you took on flesh just like ours. What intimate love that is; that you would become one of us trapped in a body destined to die. Thank you for dying so that I might live. It gives me hope in the face of grave medical difficulties. It gives me peace as one by one, my dear friends lose their bodies to death and decay. It gives me triumphant thoughts when I think about the end of all things when you step on death’s neck forever. Help me live in this Easter feeling during this entire spring, even in the days of Lent. Amen.

You cannot figure out how God could also be man anymore than you can figure out that light has no mass yet bounces off things.