The Message of Christmas is "Come and see what God has done." Everything fell apart when man originally disobeyed God in Eden, and God set about to bring creation to redemption. At Christmas God did something that initiated the final stage of the plan, and He did it by performing an amazing miracle.
In the last post I wrote I shared a song, and as I was thinking about that song another one came to mind, "Here with Us" by Joy Williams:
It's still a mystery to me
That the hands of God could be so small
How tiny fingers reaching in the night
Were the very hands that measured the sky
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven's love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah, son of God, servant King
Here with us, You're here with us
It's still a mystery to me
How His infant eyes have seen the dawn of time
How His ears have heard an angel's symphony
But still Mary had to rock her Savior to sleep
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven's love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah, son of God, servant King
Here with us, You're here with us
You're here with us
Jesus, the Christ, born in Bethlehem
A baby born to save, to save the souls of man
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven's love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah, son of God, servant King
Here with us
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven's love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah, son of God, servant King
Here with us, You're here with us
You're here with us
In the 1970's NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to explore the outer planets. At one point they instructed one of the space probes to turn around and take a panoramic shot of the space that was behind. In the image sent back the earth is seen as a pale blue dot caught in a sun beam, roughly 3.7 billion miles away. God holds the Universe in His hand, and if you could see the entire Universe you wouldn't be able to pick out the Milky Way Galaxy, let alone a single planet revolving around one of 200 billion stars. And yet, this pale blue dot is where God decided to land.
Christianity is unique because it is the only faith where God becomes man, lives among men as one of us, and then dies to take the punishment man has earned. Christmas celebrates the God of the universe being born as a baby. The voice that spoke the universe into existence would cry and must learn to speak. The hands that formed man from the dust would now reach for a human mother. The one who breathed the breath of life into man would now take His first breath. The one who ruled over everything was born to die in order to save everything.
God became man, by becoming a baby. That is the miracle of Christmas, God was now here with us.
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
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