Christmas is Christ for us--the demonstration of God's love. More than heartfelt sympathy, the action that God took by taking on flesh is the ultimate definition of 'Divine Intervention.' In our sin we were lost, helpless as a newborn. In humility, He became like us in every way, yet without sin. And this sinless Son of God and also Son of Man humbled himself further by dying a death we deserved, by experiencing eternal hellish separation from God the Father.
And therein lies a two-fold mystery:
that God would bind himself to flesh
in time for all eternity,
and the sinless one would suffer hell
to set the sinful free.
Peace be with you as you celebrate the magnificent Incarnation of God, the birth of the Savior, the redemption of His people. Amen.
