Isn’t this a baby lying in the Manger? ...Isn’t this the Carpenter’s Son? Or Isn’t He More, Indeed!

Isn’t this a baby lying in the Manger? ...Isn’t this the Carpenter’s Son? Or Isn’t He More, Indeed!
Matthew 13:54-55
54He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? 55"Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56"And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"…

What are your comments about Jesus during this Season of Advent? Shepherds going to the Manger to see a cute little infant baby boy lying in the Manger with his Mother cradling Him, or didn’t they go to see more, indeed? While lying in the Manger, as an infant, He was holding the Atoms of the universe together and the very atoms that held the ground together in the Manger where he lay.
The comments about Jesus in Matthew 13:54-55 were based upon a man-centric view of Christ; a perspective of only viewing Christ in the temporal present age of Jesus’ life. They did not have, nor could they have the perspective in view, without the Holy Spirit’s Divine illumination and Counsel and without God the Father choosing to reveal such a great mystery of God’s Sovereignty that before the foundation of the World He Existed as the Great I AM, the pre-incarnate WORD; He was and is the Eternal Son of God who Enjoyed and enjoys intimate Fellowship with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.
They had a time and temporal view of Christ, and did not keep in mind of Jesus’ personal history to His Life: in His birth, from His Mother, Mary, who was a virgin at the time of His conception. They did not have in view the Great Noel—Joyful announcement of Jesus’ birth to the Shepherds by the Angels. They did not have in view the three wise men who presented gifts of Frankincense, Myrrh and Gold---to the Priest of all Priests, the Sacrifice of all Sacrifices and the King of all Kings! They did not have in View Simeon’s Declaration of holding the Great consolation of the Ages-even Jesus Christ, the Messiah! And before Simeon Died the Holy Spirit revealed to him that Simeon would hold the consolation of Israel—indeed, of the world and the Church.
Hence, their view of Christ was, indeed, limited and they limited the miracles of Christ in their life, because of the rule of their sin cursed self in their heart ruled by their envy, jealousy, pride and arrogance that would not accept Him to be the Messiah, They were threatened by Christ, because of Sin's rule in their life that  ruled for destruction and rejection of Jesus.  They relegated Jesus in their own mind to a position of Carpenter, a non-threatening view and perspective of Christ that allowed them to view him as a hometown boy, whom they can suppress with their pride and arrogance and put him down in comparison to him, that they may exalt themselves over him. And so, they were shocked to hear the words and wisdom that Jesus spoke from His mouth. Hence, they would not, or, could not accept Jesus to be more than a Carpenter, to be the Messiah before their eyes and rejected Jesus in unbelief without honor in His own home town!
What are your comments of Jesus in your life? Do you see Him to be relegated only to merely be a human Carpenter, or do you Believer He is God, the second person of the Trinity who became flesh to deliver you from sin and death? Believe on Jesus and let His resurrected Life live through you and discover and live abundant life in Christ.