baby jesus day
I hope that everyone had a blessed and wonderful Christmas Day. I hope you took time to pause in the rush and contemplate the awesome wonder of God choosing to be born as a humble human baby. I think so often we rejoice in the beauty of the Advent, yet we don't often stop think what it really meant for Yeshua. He is God--He is the Supreme Deity of the universe--He created the universe with his voice--He governs each one of us, each finite and flawed being of us--and He chose to set that position aside, to become a finite being of Earth. To say that it is similar to a human choosing to become an earthworm, doesn't even grasp the entire truth of the situation. I'm not sure that any human truly can comprehend what Yeshua was choosing when He chose to be a baby human, to grow up as a human, to submit to death as a human. Phenominal. I hope you thought of that just a bit. And I hope, in that pause, in that thought, that you looked upon the Cross. I hope that you remembered that the joyous beauty of the Advent is only joyous and beautiful because its purpose--its culmination--was the Sacrifice. Without the Sacrifice--Divinity offering itself for sinful, foolish, helpless humanity--the Advent would not have occured. It would have been unnecessary. Take a moment to gaze upon the baby in the manger--fully God yet fully man--and then, for a moment, gaze upon the man on the cross. That is the meaning of Christmas. Let it light your soul.