“Jesus the Christ entered the world amid strife and terror, and spent his infancy hidden in Egypt as a refugee…. As I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
“He has brought down rulers from their thrones but lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but sent the rich away empty,” said Mary in her Magnificat. I wonder what Mary thought about her militant hymn during her harrowing years in Egypt. For a Jew, Egypt evoked bright memories of a powerful God who had flattened a pharaoh’s army and brought liberation; now Mary fled there, desperate, a stranger in a strange land hiding from her own government.
Could her baby, hunted, helpless, on the run, possibly fulfill the lavish hopes of his people?” ~ Philip Yancey
