Christmas Thoughts

"Christmas is not about the Savior's infancy; it is about His deity. The humble birth of Jesus Christ was never intended to be a facade to conceal the reality that God was being born into the world.

No one can really fathom what it means for God to be born in a manger. How does one explain the Almighty stooping to become a tiny infant? It was the greatest condescension the world has ever known or ever will know. Our minds cannot begin to understand what was in God's becoming a man. We will never comprehend why He who was infinitely rich would become poor, assume a human nature, and enter into a world He knew would reject Him and kill Him.

Nor can anyone explain how God could become a baby. Yet He did. Without forsaking His divine nature or diminishing His deity in any sense, He was born into our world as a tiny infant.

This is the immeasurable gift of Christmas. Christ, God's own Son, gave up His wealth and privilege to live as God with us, Immanuel, that He might save His people from our sins and that through His poverty we might become rich. The miraculous gift of Christmas is God being born in a manger, so we can be born again in His glory."

~taken from God's Gift of Christmas by John MacArthur