Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy
Has come to make you new?
This child that you delivered, will soon deliver you
Those words are part of Christmas song that still has the power to make me cry with the wonder of it.
Sometimes the Holy Spirit gives us a gift of downloading some beautiful truth that we have taken for granted.
We may have read a passage in the Bible many times and yet it's suddenly illuminated like we've never seen it before.
When dealing with our smartphones, tablets or pc's - we have to take time to download a photo, an application, a movie or a song and store it in order to make it our own.
Have I taken the time to download the revelation of Jesus and store Him into my heart - for Him to become personally present in my life?
Have I, like Mary, taken God's word to heart?
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Luke 2:19
The miracle of the Son of God coming into this world is one that goes past the power of imagination. It takes time to download it!
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
God the Father must have waited and waited for exactly the right woman and godly man to entrust Jesus to.
It was a risky business... who would believe it? Who would receive it?
God planted in a woman's womb, wholly God, wholly human.... a daring, incredible rescue plan. Being confined, dependent on human flesh for sustenance and protection.
It is said that to love truly, you need to be truly vulnerable.
The greatest demonstration of that vulnerable love, was God, laying aside all the majesty and splendour of heaven, becoming like us - exposed to rejection, poverty - relying on frail humanity for education and government.
7b He made Himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Philippians 2
Today, stop and realise afresh that Jesus still makes Himself vulnerable. He still exposes Himself to our rejection and alienation.
He offers Himself to you and me. He entrusts us with His precious truth to share. When we open our heart up to Him, He comes to make His home inside us.
It's a still a risky old business!
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