What if you lost the ability to talk? What if all of a sudden, you couldn’t communicate with anyone? How frustrating would it be to go through tomorrow not being able to use words or string sentences together? If something suddenly prevented you from speaking, you would feel so limited and stifled. When Jesus was born as a baby in Bethlehem on that very first Christmas, He experienced something just like that. You see, Jesus wasn’t like other babies. He didn’t start existing when He was conceived. Jesus was and is and always will be the Eternal and Almighty God. He existed before time began. He invented the laws of thermodynamics before He jump-started them into motion! When Jesus became a baby, He emptied Himself. He limited Himself. The One who spoke the universe into being willingly entered into a situation where He could no longer speak. He became a real human baby, so He didn’t have the ability to string sounds together into words and words together into sentences. The One who gave life and meaning to the world wasn’t able to convey His meaning to anyone in the world. The Word of God wasn’t able to speak any words. Wow. That must have been so frustrating! It must have been staggering and disorienting for Someone so limitless to suddenly be so limited. And yet, there would come a day when accusations and fists and spit would fly into His face and Jesus wouldn’t say a word. A whip would fall on His back over and over again, and He stayed silent. He was led to a cross without having committed any crime and He was speechless. Maybe, becoming a speechless baby was just practice for the real thing.
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