December 21, 2012
The Christmas Baby
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
- George Eliot
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 8:2
The most significant symbol of the Christmas season is not the tree, the star, the ornaments, or even the candy cane: rather the true nature and purpose of Christmas is wrapped up in the baby in the manger.
Babies embody such innocence and purity while providing the promise for such potential and possibility.
Baby Jesus was no different. He was the very perfect, pure and personified presence of God: and He brought with His birth the promise and possibility for the supreme sacrifice for sin and the ultimate undoing and defeat of death, hell and the devil.
Jesus was not born to live: though He did live a perfectly sinless life: He was rather born to die: the cross being the ultimate final earthly destination for the culmination of His life’s purpose. He after death visited ever so briefly a borrowed tomb; but even that could not hold Him back from being and becoming all that He was about and that is life: as He rose from the dead, confirming, sealing and attesting to the eternal victory for all souls who would believe and receive Him.
With God nothing is impossible and Jesus could have just appeared as a teen a man or at any stage of life God might have chosen: yet He came as a baby to remind us of everything He was, stood for and would be.
Have you embraced the baby of Christmas: for all that He represents and wants to be in your life?
Today’s Prayer
Father, thank you for your gift; your son, our hope, our life and our forgiveness.
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