Many say that Christmastime is a magical season. Look…it is not magic! The season surrounds an annual acknowledgment of God. It also marks the beginning of a new thing that God is still doing on the face of the earth. He crawled, He walked, and He grew amid creation, speaking to us the only eternal truth that God Himself can deliver.
God set the Word up for Christmas. The many predictions recorded in Scripture about Christ came to pass and validate the authority and divine nature of the Holy Bible. One can believe the story about Jesus and thus be confident that He can deliver all the promises He ever made to people. His Word, both written and verbal, never perishes, spoils, or fails. It is interesting that at Christmas, people acknowledge the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whether they believe or not. Participating in any aspect of the celebration is an acknowledgement of God and that something special happened, fulfilling in part —
It is written: “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.”
Romans 14:11 (NIV)
The aura that surrounds Christmas is a sphere: up, down, side to side, and front to back. It is not made up of all the positive feelings or any vibes that originate from the human soul. The season’s atmosphere is unique in that it is a manifestation of God’s heart towards mankind and the Father’s heart to His Son. The boundaries of Christmas extend from the core of the earth and stretch past the highest heavens. It is infinite.
Why the baby, why the manger? The Christmas process, including the pregnancy and birth, was essential for God to become full. Scripture speaks of God’s omniscience.
“For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.”
1 John 3:20 (NIV)
Consider this. God had a head knowledge of the human condition but did not have the experiential knowledge. God, being God, leaves no stone unturned; He had to know our hearts by experience, or from the human perspective, to know everything. Omniscience means to know everything, total and maximum knowledge. How could God do anything less than become a creature? The kicker is, He needed a body in which He could behave like God, so He made man in His image and entered our world to experience this created life.
Can you imagine God crawling on all fours across the kitchen floor? Learning to walk in those shuffling first steps as a toddler? Jesus knows, He does not have to imagine the bumps and bruises of growing up as a human. So now, when Jesus speaks, He has been there, done that.
It is true that Jesus came here so that we might know God personally. He walked with us and talked with us and even listened to us. What a wonderful God! It is also true that Jesus came here so that He might know us more perfectly, building a relationship that had no walls of exclusiveness or elitism between God and Man. Let this Christmas mark the season that you join in a new thing with God, that you come to know Him and not just know about Him. Be born in the Spirit as He was born in water and truly become a son or a daughter of the Most High God.
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