The coca-cola advert has aired. I’ve ventured to Winter Wonderland, decorated the tree and danced along to Bublé , which only means one thing – Christmas is here!
- My younger brother – a little bit excited about Christmas…
- The HUGE tree outside the Waterfront Winterland.
I got my little Santa earrings out of the drawer today. I’m not going to wear them right away, but it was nice to know that it wont be long before they make an appearance again. It might be a bit obvious by now but I LOVE Christmas – the late night shopping, the twinkling fairy lights and especially the cheesy knitted jumpers.
Whilst finding my Christmas earrings and decorating the tree today, I also came across this in J. I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’…
“But in fact the real difficulty…It lies, not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man…God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby…The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the incarnation.”
Through all the business of the Christmas season it’s easy to overlook just how amazing and incomprehensible the incarnation is. The creator coming to live in this world. Being fully God and fully man. Becoming a baby, learning to walk and talk. I just can’t get my head around this incredible truth. That Christ would leave Heaven, the perfectness and love that He has known for all of eternity, and humble himself to this world. To live as a man, to be despised and rejected. ‘Nothing in fiction is so fantastic’.
I said to you, 'Live!' 