With less than 5 days until Christmas, I am reminded that the event of Christmas and the person of Christ are equally important.
The event, God stretching down to earth, to get in this creation with us as flesh strikes the human heart as a touching act of steadfast love. The event of Christmas reconciles God and man. The person of Jesus Christ came to bring, as John 1.17 says, grace and truth. Grace and truth active in one person, alive in the King of Kings, born in a lowly stable, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. The person of Jesus is the gift of the love of God. The person of Christ is God and man.
In this Christmas season, our great hope, no matter how much strife we have personally, no matter how much sickness we or our loved ones endure, no matter how grave our sins, no matter how many wars continue overseas, no matter how unjust human society, is that we can never be cut off from the love of God in Jesus Christ.
We have so much to thank God for and so many reasons to worship Christ at Christmas. God truly is with us in the babe born in Bethlehem.
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