Hit ‘Em High

As some of our own poets have said,

If I hit 'em high, hit 'em high, hit 'em high
And you hit 'em low, hit 'em low, hit 'em low

If that line doesn’t ring a bell, be sure to add the 1996 hit motion picture Space Jam (the original) to your watchlist. In any case, what’s the point? Point is this sounds like something Isaiah the prophet said:

Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven (Isaiah 7:11).

King Ahaz foolishly refuses (in false piety). So the Lord rebukes him, giving his own sign instead. What shall it be, high or low? How about both. He gives the sign of the virgin birth (verse 14), which checks both boxes at once. He hit ‘em high and he hit ‘em low, high as God and low as creation.

God the Son, exalted in heaven, is conceived in the womb—or as David says, “intricately woven in the depths of the earth” (Psalm 139:15). And then (as if to complete the chiasm) he went low for us in death and high for us in glory, where we’re going too.