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Nate Finley
Was God Blue Collar?
From the beginning of creation, God has been getting down and dirty in His ways of pursuing us. First, he gives us life in our beginning when he kneels down—I can almost sense Him getting dirt in and under his fingernails as he breathes the breath of life into man’s nostrils in order to make us a living person (Genesis 2). He later literally gets on Adam and Eve’s level when he asks the infamous, “Where are you?” in Genesis 3 when they ate the fruit. In Moses’ case, God was pursuing him through a burning bush, and a talking donkey in Balaam’s position in the book of Numbers. Maybe it was the playfulness of God to ask a frustrated Peter to find his tax money in the mouth of a fish, his previous career, in Matthew 17 that grabs our attention; or my favorite is when he snuck his one and only son into enemy territory, disguised as a baby and stayed there for 33 blameless years patiently waiting to fulfill his plan in taking our place in death so that we might turn to him as found in the gospels. A beautiful, never-ending pursuit of God to his children of you and me.
My Genesis
Before knowing all this, I grew up in a middle-class family where my dad was a blue-collar business owner in the home property business. While growing up in this geography, naturally a good parent wants to bestow what they have learned onto their kids. And even more so, every child longs to receive affection from their parents, especially a father and son's affection. My mom has photos of me as a small kid wearing