Tuesday, December 14, 1999
Tuesday, December 14, 1999
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with
child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
It is an incredible idea. It is so incredible that many Christians only pay lip service to it. To accept
the idea that the Bethlehem babe really is the incarnate God is to alter every truth with which we
comfortably live. To say that Jesus Christ really is the incarnation of the living God is to say that
his testimony is unalterably true. It means that when I go against his teachings, I am not merely
asserting my own judgment, but that I am fundamentally in error. God emptied Himself.
(Isaiah 7:14
NRSV)
"Sesame Street" had a skit one time of the old fairy tale where the beautiful princess kisses an
ugly frog and the frog becomes a handsome prince. In the Sesame Street telling, however, the
princess kissed the frog, whereupon she turned into a frog herself. That is closer to what we
celebrate at Christmas. God did not swoop down and survey the human situation from a safe
distance. God emptied Himself. He lay aside His celestial robes to don the simple raiment of a
man. Divinity clothed itself with dust.
God of peace, you gave your all to me and to my world, thank you! Amen.
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