In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God…
And the Word became flesh.
John 1:1,14

With all the sentiment that surrounds Christmas, it’s easy for us to forget the significance of what was happening when Jesus was born. God was humbling himself, taking on human flesh, and entering time and space as a helpless child.

The birth of Jesus is the starting point for what C.S. Lewis calls the Grand Miracle.
“The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him. It is precisely one great miracle.
“If you take that away there is nothing specifically Christian left. There may be many admirable human things which Christianity shares with all other systems in the world, but there would be nothing specifically Christian.”

When we would not and could not go to Him, because of our pride and unbelief, God came to us. As songwriter Michael Card says:
And so the light became alive,
And manna became man.
Eternity stepped into time,
That we might understand.

God drew near to us so that we might draw near to Him.

Prayer: Lord, we thank you today that while we were still proud and stubborn and hard hearted, You came among us and loved us first.