Everyone wants the fairy tale romance to be true of them. Everyone wants to have a great story to tell. Everyone wants to be sought after and pursued in epic ways that seem outlandish and even legendary. We all love to hear those stories about the guy who drove across the country through the night just to chase down the girl he loved and tell her face-to-face. We all want to know just how far love would go. What would a person be willing to risk? What would a person be willing to lose in order to have me? That’s what’s so beautiful about the Christmas story. Love Himself came all the way down from Heaven into our world to rescue us. Jesus willingly chose to live a difficult, dangerous life as a poor, unknown, rejected nobody all because you mean so much to Him. He risked everything for love - for you. The thing is, when someone says they drove across the country through the night to be with their love, we understand what that means. We’ve driven when we’re tired. We understand what a long car trip like that requires. Everything is different with Jesus coming down on that first Christmas. The Apostle Paul says that Jesus emptied Himself and took on the form of a servant - being found in human likeness. The King of all became nothing. I don’t know exactly what it means that He emptied Himself. We could never understand the cost of His condescension, but He knew. He knew and He did it anyway. He became nothing for us. The One who is fullness Himself became empty to give us His fulness. Now that’s a love story.
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