The big, fat theological term for what happened in the first Christmas is the ‘Incarnation.’ It means that at a certain point in history, the Eternal and Almighty God put on skin and became a man in the person of Jesus. I bet when angels think about the Incarnation, their heads are spinning over the fact that normal life continued once Jesus arrived on this earth. They are probably mystified over the fact that people casually talked to Jesus in the streets, or even walked right past Him in the marketplace without taking any notice. They may have thought, “Don’t they realize who He is!?!” When angels first heard about the Incarnation, they probably assumed it was the end of the world... that every single person throughout the world would stop, bow and worship their Maker and the Lover of their souls. But that didn’t happen. Jesus came into our world quietly, without notice. He grew up quietly in a small town and no one even realized that He was God in the flesh. Why didn’t He make the world bow down by the force of His glorious and limitless might? Well, because Jesus doesn’t just want subjects, He wants to be loved. I love Jesus because when He came, He gave people the right to ignore Him; because love isn’t something you can insist upon, no matter how strong you are.
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