Scripture: Galatians 4:4-5.  J.B. page 1765.

Observation.  Jesus was born!  We celebrate that on Christmas. Read the passage.  Jesus was born to Mary.  God left the throne of heaven and was born as a baby.  That is a journey I will never get…from heaven to a dirty manger, next to cows.  He gave up Heaven to be born.  He is the Creator, but He came to earth like those He created.  He was an infant, completely dependent on parents for all His needs.  God made Him self completely dependent.  Think about that for a moment.

Don’t let your brain just explode, but know Jesus is all God and all man.  Jesus is 100% God and  was 100% Man at the same time, not 50-50 or 60-40.  Remember Hebrews 1:3 from Day One.  “The Son is the radiance of God glory and the exact representation of his being.”   And now we see Jesus, who is 100% God, born to Mary, 100% human!

Application.  Why does God make this trip from heaven to earth?  Why does He bother?  In His story, the motivation is to bring glory to God, the Father.  He sacrificed so much to leave heaven and come to us, to demonstrate who God was like, to serve, to prove His love, and to rescue us.  This is God’s story.  We are a tiny, tiny part of it.

John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”  As Louie Giglio puts it, ” God moved into our sub-division.”  Jesus comes to rescue us.

Prayer.  God, thank you that you became a man, to know what it means to be tempted, to die in my place, to rescue me.  Today, help me to go into my world to represent you in whatever I do.  This is Your story God, help me to look to You.