This morning as I read through my quiet time devotional and reflected on the season, I began to think about that moment in time over 2,000 years ago when a single Baby was born in that stable. He was a unique Baby - definitely one of a kind. There was never anyone like Him before then and there will never be anyone like Him again. He was Emmanuel - God with us.
In my mind's eye, I imagined seeing that small Baby wrapped in those simple cloths, being watched over by Joseph and Mary, His mother. A fully human baby, and yet He was also fully God.
Just imagine! This God who created the earth (Gen. 1) and all the other planets, and numbered and named each of the stars (Psalm 147:4)...this God who is eternal (Isaiah 40:28), who is so far beyond what our limited minds can comprehend...this God chose a small moment in time at an insignificant location with a poor unknown family to come to earth to impact all of mankind for all eternity. Jesus Christ was the full embodiment of the diety of God within the full embodiment of flesh. I don't know about you, but it takes my breath away.
Sometimes it is easy to try to fit my concept of God into a nice, neat little bundle...one that doesn't upset my balance or interfere in my day-to-day activities. But the times that I sit and really contemplate who God is...and who am I to Him...it can become overwhelming. We are so finite in our ability to understand Him. God gives us simple glimpses of Who He is in His Word, and through the help of the Holy Spirit, we are able to comprehend limited bits, but what we know now and can comprehend now is but the tiniest fraction of the whole truth of Who God is.
It's like that small moment in time when Emmanuel was born, so small is our understanding of God. But God did give us that small moment in time. He did give us Emmanuel...God with us...so that we could know Him better, more intimately, more uniquely than ever before.
I praise God for that small baby born in Bethlehem...for the God of all eternity to dwell here on earth as a man and then die to pay a penalty we could not pay...it is definitely the greatest gift ever given.
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