Lower than the angels, but served by them; Angels: Day 189

When Christ was a humble Galilean carpenter, says St. Ambrose, he was still Lord of all the angels. The Incarnation took nothing away from his divinity.

So the Son of God was made lower than not only the Father, but angels as well. Do you think that dishonors him? Then is the Son, as God, less than his angels who serve him and minister to him?

You see how, when you try to diminish his honor, you run into the blasphemy of exalting the nature of angels above the Son of God. But the servant is not above his master (Matt. 10:24). Again, angels ministered to him even after his Incarnation, just to make sure you would acknowledge that he suffered no loss of majesty because of his bodily nature. For God could not submit to any loss of himself, while the nature he has taken of the Virgin neither adds to nor takes away from his divine power. –St. Ambrose, Exposition of the Christian Faith, 2.8

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

The angels knew and served Christ even when he was a humble carpenter’s son. Do I recognize Christ and serve him in the humblest people I see—the poor, the forgotten, the homeless?

CLOSING PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, show forth a plain sign of your majesty, that all on earth may serve you as faithfully as your angels serve you.

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