Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thank you for listening to Susie Larson Live. Faith Radio podcasts are only possible because of your support. So thanks for giving, and thanks for sharing with a friend. Welcome to sing so the black row is you glide.

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Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that

heightens your awareness of just very real presence in your life.

Here's a question for you.

What made Jesus so unique in his day?

And what makes him so unique in our day?

Well, I'm thinking back to the context of Jesus' arrival on the earth. In that day, ego was king.

Like it was considered a virtue to be posturing and prideful. Yet Jesus arrived on the scene in the most humble of ways.

And he journeyed through life, journeyed through life

with profound humility. And in a day when people vied for attention and position, Jesus often

slipped away after performing a life-altering miracle. In a day when the Jewish people longed to be

free from Rome's oppression, Jesus didn't come to overthrow Rome. He came to cast a

greater vision for their lives. He disappointed some, and he surprised others. The religious

leaders were so stuck in their ideas of what the Messiah would be like. They missed him when he

came. Well, similarly, today, people are so stuck in what they think Jesus should be

like that they don't know him as he is or see him as he is. And what's the consequence? They're

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