123. He Was Vulnerable

John 1:14

It’s kind of amazing that Christmas washes over most folks. Tons of people just live through it and never once think about the magnitude of this thing. I mean, really?! Christmas is flat-out the most intriguing, amazing, outrageous, overwhelming and completely underestimated thing that has ever happened! It’s the most beautiful, heart-wrenching story about a poor, young couple who trusted God, which made them seemingly completely alone in the world. But then, you turn the page and find the night sky bursting open with company upon company of airborne, explosive, special forces warriors, singing the praises of the little Baby that was born into the arms of those thought-to-be alone teenagers. Turns out that the angels were singing because God Himself - who formed the night sky, the physics that governed that night sky, the angels, the sheep, the shepherds and the teenagers had come all the way down into the human story by becoming one of us. WHAT?! What kind of condescension is this? God became helpless! What if those teenagers dropped Him? What if He cut His little hand? Would God really bleed? Wow. The most under-rated fact of Christmas is the vulnerability of the Mighty God. Water would make Him wet. The sun would burn Him. The fists would make Him bleed. Who would do such a thing? Why would anyone with unlimited power take it off, making themselves vulnerable to pain? Well, Jesus would. He did. And the reason He did was because if He didn’t do it, we would be lost. He did it because we had no other hope. His vulnerability bought our hope. His blood, our freedom. His death, our life. O Come, Let Us Adore Him, Christ The Lord.