ADVENT: Day Five:
“The Profundity of Christmas: GOD
became a Man”
Are
you ready to receive the one and only that God is sending our way? Are you
ready to make room for Christ, even when he comes in the form of a homeless
child, a teenager in recovery, and an older adult who is lonely and physically
broken down?
You
see, Christmas isn’t merely celebrating the birth of a simple babe . . .
Christmas is celebrating one of the most profoundly ridiculous and impacting events
in the history of the world! John
describes it this way: “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was GOD. He was in the beginning with GOD. All things came into being through Him, and
apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light
of men. The Light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it . . . . And the Word became
flesh, and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the
only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-5 & 14).
So,
are you truly ready to fully embrace this “One sent from GOD?” This isn’t about singing cute Christmas songs
or striving to mimic a “Hallmark” experience.
This One will require from you your life. This One will require that you deny self
completely. This One will require
allegiance to another realm of existence.
To
truly embrace this “One sent from GOD” will so impact your life you will be
completely and totally overwhelmed in such a way you will never be the same
again. This is His redemptive plan for
you and for me.
The season of
Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never
seen before . . . . What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just
as it brushes past you. So stay. Sit.
Linger. Tarry. Ponder.
Wait. Behold. Wonder.
There will be time enough for running.
For rushing. For worrying. For pushing.
For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.” – (Jan L.
Richardson, Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas)
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