There was nothing normal about the conception of Lord. It was done by the Hovering of God’s Spirit and was done by God’s Word spoken. Mary would be a virgin espoused to be the bride to Joseph as soon as a reasonable time period occurred after the birth of Jesus. One of the most loving acts of any mother is the wrapping of their babies in a cloth to give them comfort. To swaddle them is what is what it called in the Bible, To make a baby snug as a bug in a bed. Being surround by a warm blanket to keep out the cold air of the night and even the day. To keep on in tender care of comfort. One might think of the Lord comforting us with his sheltering arms, but who comforts God. Mary comfort Jesus on the night he was born. Had God ever felt the comfort of a human arms. God had felt the emotion of our love for him, but as a babe our Lord experienced the first human embrace of a blanket. The mother’s tender act given to our Lord, might seem trivial to some. Yet it is only a reminder of who a believer learns it from. If nothing more we learn to wrap our children in scripture from the mother of Jesus, yet it would be a practiced passed for centuries no doubt before.

As a little girls wraps their doll in hopes of one day being a mother. Dolls being the first practice of motherhood for a little girl. Little boys may play with a doll in hopes to being a father, but seldom is it to wrap them in blanket, unless they mimic a sister. Who teaches a little girl to wrap or swaddle their dolls but a mother, aunt or some woman who cares for the child. The instinct of swaddling is not human one. To hug to hold to cuddle is a human instinct. Yet to proved warmth only comes with the knowledge of needing a fur coat outside the garden of Eden. God providing the first swaddling, yet he knows not the human’s embrace.

Did Jesus come to feel the human touch, or the warm embrace, perhaps not, but it was something he would experience in the flesh. Something new in one since and old in another. Even in Old Testament scripture at the appearance of God, he was never embraced. Man always bowed at the knowledge at presences of God. Even Abraham and Moses talked with God but one never hears they embraced God. Mary of Magdelene of told not to touch him after the resurrection tell he went to the Father. A very act of denying an embrace, for the benefit of purity before the Father perhaps. For Mary of Magdelene was of this world and Jesus from beyond the grave. Perhaps in those few verses we see Jesus still has Son going to the Father and not one. Son being a separate part of God, a part that would know the human embrace in physical sense.

A woman first showing the very embrace and comfort with a blanket Jesus’ mother. There was no comfort for Jesus on the night he would be betrayed except from God. His friends around him commanded to pray, yet not understand the importance of the night. Ministering spirit were said to be at the hours of temptation for Jesus. Yet no bread was given. Jesus last act before he died was Father forgive them, and the most heinous act of torcher was seen and done to our Lord. Did God need Mary to swaddle him of course not. He feels our love for him and our hatred in times of anger. He knows by His Spirit. Yet he still sends His Holy Spirit as a comforter, to swaddle us with His love and to enable us to swaddle others with our Christ’s like love. To show the very act of love, when we like to crucify instead. Mary was chosen so Jesus would fit with us, by the acts of love of a mother and Joseph as a father.

Dear Heavenly Father wrap us in your embrace and over shadow us, allowing us to know the difference of the spiritual embrace needed to do your work for your glory for the expression of love demonstrated to others. In Jesus precious name, Amen.