I’m writing from the heart tonight. I went to a Christmas concert (linked here) and I felt God. He was there, in every song, and I began to think about His gift to this world and all that it meant:
What might our world look like if not for that precious night? “Joy to the world!” earth is receiving her King, and every heart is preparing for Him. Heaven and nature singing as one in pure joy. The arrival of a baby, who would change the world forever.
Tonight my husband told me that I was witnessing, because I found that I could not stop talking about it. God created us in His image – it is clear in Genesis what His expectation for us was. He created us in such a way that we could fall short of that expectation if we chose to do so, and so we did. God was angry, and reached out in wrath to cover the earth in a flood and start over. We got a second chance to choose Him, and we fell short again. This time, God didn’t become vengeful. I imagine He must have been disappointed, but not surprised at the nature of humankind. So, He reached out in love. He sent a baby to earth and gave him a pure mother and a righteous father. He guided Jesus into life and as a man he proved that a human could be sinless. Jesus gave his life for us in the greatest act of love; God gave His son for us so that we could still choose to follow Him in righteousness.
God could have done anything beyond what we can even comprehend, but He chose to show His greatest act of love through his child. What immense joy do we get to feel in that love?
