He who is spiritual sought out the earthy in the womb; He who is the ever-living One sought out him who, through disobedience, is subject to death; He who is heavenly called the terrene to the things that are above; He who is the nobly-born sought, by means of His own subjection, to declare the slave free; He transformed the man into adamant who was dissolved into dust and made the food of the serpent, and declared Him who hung on the tree to be Lord over the conqueror, and thus through the tree He is found victor.

Hippolytus of Rome. 1886. “Fragments of Discourses or Homilies.” In Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, translated by S. D. F. Salmond, 5:239. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

Trust Jesus! There is a reason why He is the greatest of all time!

“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest….” – Luke 1:31-32b

“I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ” – Isaiah 49:6b