Baby Jesus in a manger, I love You...
In our Americanized homes and churches, we arrange Nativity scenes. A Mary bent over a manger, a Joseph leaning on his staff, a sheep and a donkey peering over their shoulders, three Wise Men on bended knee...and a baby Jesus displayed in a feeding trough.
Lying there, to earth a stranger, I love You...
It blends in with the other decorations. Just another part of the season, lost amist the lights and garland and presents.
But this week, as I was listening to a Christmas sermon on one of my drives home, the Spirit opened my eyes just a crack to the magnificent reality of the awesomeness of this scene. For He gave me a glimpse into the wonder that is God-made-flesh.
The Creator of the Universe is a mysterious Being. If you've ever seen Louis Giglio's presentations, my guess is you were blown away by the huge infiniteness of our universe. Earth isn't even a blip on the screen in the panoramic view of billions of galaxies.
Our Creator spoke all of these into existance.
This same Creator carefully formed you inside the womb. He knew you before you were even conceived.
He made everything around us - the earth, sea, trees, bugs, animals - with incredible detail.
He says to us, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9)." Now we can see a limited view of the cosmos that stretches for distances beyond comprehension.
His thoughts, His knowledge and plans...that's how far beyond us they are.
Shepherds heard the angels singing "I love You."
This Creator became a baby, limited Himself to the confines of flesh.
This little baby that looked like any other...this was the LORD.
What if this baby was in His little manger...in the very sanctuary where I worship?
What would I think, feel, as I saw this humble little baby and knew that God Himself was laying before me?
What would I do as I looked upon His infant face? Fall on my knees? Sing? Cry? Rejoice?
Would I dare hold Him?
I do not think my heart could handle such a thing.
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Joseph, Mary, even Simeon took the little one in their arms. Held God in their hands.
I cannot fathom.
Yet He invited them to do that by inserting Himself in the flesh into their lives. And, I suppose, that's as much what He does for us. He invites us into that same intimacy with His greatness.
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