Dec 24th Sermon24th

Author and pastor Max Lucado beautifully describes the reality of what happened in that moment. Check this out:

While the creatures of earth walked unaware, Divinity arrived. Heaven opened herself and placed her most precious one in a human womb.

The Omnipotent, in one instant, made himself breakable. He who had been spirit became pierceable. He who was larger than the universe became an embryo. He who sustains the world with a word chose to be dependent upon the nourishment of a young girl.

God as a fetus. Holiness sleeping in a womb. The creator of life being created. God was given eyebrows, elbows, two kidneys, and a spleen. He stretched against the walls and floated in the amniotic fluids of his mother. God had come near.

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. The hands that first held him were unmanicured, calloused, and dirty.

No silk. No ivory. No hype. No party. No hoopla.

Angels watched as Mary changed God’s diaper. The universe watched with wonder as The Almighty learned to walk. Children played in the street with him.

Jesus may have had pimples. He may have been tone-deaf. Perhaps a girl down the street had a crush on him. It could be that his knees were bony. But one thing’s for sure: He was, while completely divine, completely human. (pause)

Mind boggling isn’t it? That God would come to this earth as a vulnerable baby so that we could ultimately be able to be at peace with him.

For thirty-three years Jesus would feel everything you and I have ever felt. He felt weak. He grew weary. He caught colds. He burped. He had body odor. His feet got sore. He got frustrated, irritated. He laughed and he cried. He got hungry and more than likely suffered sunburn and heartburn. He was misunderstood, ridiculed and wrongly accused. That resulted in him being arrested and sentenced to die on a Roman cross which he did. But then three days later he rose from the dead and because of that it is possible for you and for me to be made right with God and have peace with him.