The people who walk in darkness will see a
great light. (Isaiah 9:2)
Ancient
astronomers were in awe of the greatness of the stars and planets but now with
our telescopes we’re overwhelmed by the size of the cosmos! Today’s astronomers aided by all of their
state-of-the-art instruments, have looked into the depths of the astonishing
greatness of the universe. This really
gives us an extra jolt to our understanding of the Almighty “Who
fills heaven and earth”! (Jeremiah 23:24). There are more
than 200 billion galaxies in the universe.
To get to the closest one (Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy) which is only 25,
000 light years away, it would take (at our present Voyager’s speed at 35,000
MPH) approximately 749 million years!
To fully
appreciate the great feast of the Nativity we have to reflect on the shocking
truth that God cares so much about us that He would send His Only Begotten Son
to share our humanity (John 3:16).
Despite their wonderful understanding of God none of the early prophets
or seers had a clear depiction of the incarnation that the Lord, “emptied
Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
men.” (Philippians
2:7)
Christmas is
a startling reality that so great a God, Creator of the universe, would “empty”
Himself to get close to us! “What
is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care (“visit”)
for him?” (Psalm
8:4). Until we realize how incredibly
great God is, we’ll never really comprehend how mind-boggling Jesus’s
incarnation really is.
Can we
really grasp at all how tremendous God is?
“O Lord my God, you
are very great;” (Ps
104:1). Such an amazing God would scare most
of us to death. That’s why He came to us
“born
of a woman” (Matthew
11:11). He’s as human as any of us
except sin without the slightest diminishment of His Divinity (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus called Himself the “Son of Man” over 80
times in the New Testament! He wanted to
befriend us and be utterly close to us!
He even shared our grief and suffering!
Even now and forever His glorious body carries the wounds of the
cross. He is truly one of us.
No comments:
Post a Comment