Christmas: The Birth of God's Word

There have been prophets throughout the ages. God has communicated with His people in many ways, as they have experienced their time on Earth.  Many individuals have had personal experiences of God’s Spirit talking to them in their lives as they have met the challenges of life. So mankind has not been alone in God’s created World and has had a sense of relationship with God in this wonderful gift of life.

Yes, we have all made mistakes in our lives that didn’t make us happy, but we hoped God was looking the other way or at least would forgive us.  In the centuries since our creation, God has known that His children aren’t perfect, but he loves us just the same.  As with Adam and Eve in the Garden, the free will He has given us allows us the choice to worship Him or not.  God didn’t want a captive family when he decided to inhabit the Earth with us.  He created children that would freely turn to Him as they came to understand His nature.

So it was, as time passed in our God created World for many millennia.  And, God had a desire to talk to His children directly.  That is, to be with us in a way that we could hear His Word as if He was standing beside us.  Our all-powerful God decided that he would come to us as God and man in human form, Emmanuel.

God accomplished this through His Spirit as he created in Mary, the Son of God and the Son of Man.  Jesus lived his life in blessing us with God’s Word to live by and died on a cross as a sacrifice to fully show God’s Love for and Forgiveness of us.  He became Christ to us through His Resurrection. This was God’s experiment to come even closer to those He had created.

The voice of Jesus, Son of Man, and Son of God was God’s Voice and Word speaking to us in so many ways.  Christmas then, is the celebration of God’s Word being born among us.  A Word delivered by one who looked like us, but was really Emmanuel, God with us. 

Through The Word’s life, death and resurrection, God has fully communicated to His people that he is a loving and forgiving God.  He has taken His Word back with Him as they are one with the Spirit, but we can celebrate each Christmas in the joy of His placing His Word in a remote and far away manger that has spread throughout the World and to each of us.