The Holy Reversal

From Thomas Oden's The Word of Life, speaking of Christ becoming fully human:

"As a person he went through "the various stages of his life." Each step, however, constituted a unique reversal of ordinary expectations and a consequent liberation: 'He determined to be poor... All the things which men unrighteously desired to possess, he did without and so made them of no account. All the things which men sought to avoid and so deviated from the search for truth, he endured and so robbed them of their power over us.' Accordingly he "refused to be a king, " did not marry, "bore with insults," and while "They thought a cross the most shameful form of death: He was crucified'" (Augustine, OTR XVI, p. 26-28).

Man. Jesus made these things of no account. All those things which we pursue as holding ultimate satisfaction and those things that we avoid because we believe cause irreparable damage. He said, "Let me show you that these hold no power." Jesus did just come to show us who God is but he came to show us what it is to be fully human.

Thoughts?