Christmas Would Have Been Different...My Way

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

It’s a good thing I am not God because things would be handled a lot differently. Take the birth of Christ, for example. God brought about the advent of His Son in a way that was completely different from how I would have done it. As He did so often, God sent His Son in a way that was unexpected, but exactly what was needed. He came as one of us—into our smallness, our lostness. 

So how would the first Christmas have been different if it had been done my way? For starters, I would have sent Him as a powerful king. Instead, He came as a powerless baby. 

I would have sent him as a triumphant warrior. Instead, He came as a silent, sacrificial lamb.

I would have sent Him to attract the strong and powerful by His charismatic presence. Instead, He came to serve the “least of these”—the lost.

As you can see, I would have messed up everything. Had Christ come as I would have sent Him, it would have only exacerbated the distance between the human and divine. But God in His wisdom devised a plan that bridged the gap between Himself and humanity. And because of that, because He became like us, we can become like Him.  

And that is indeed “glad tidings of great joy, which will be to all people,” and the glorious “Good News” of Christmas. 

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8