In my pursuit to expand my scope of all we have to celebrate in Christ this Christmas, God has had me back up in time to a little before His Son’s actual birth.
I have always celebrated Christ’s birth at Christmas, but I don’t think I have previously thought a lot about what took place just before that incredible birth actually happened.
Can you imagine the conversations that must have taken place between God and Jesus?
Can you imagine what heaven must have been like knowing the time for Christ to be born had come?
There is so much to take in and consider, but the biggest truth God has been talking to me about this morning is…
Jesus
chose
to
come
I have been reading in John chapter 1 today and through these verses I have been trying to wrap my head around all that means…
Jesus chose to be born.
He chose to become flesh (a little baby) and dwell among us. – John 1:14
I can not imagine what it must have been like for one part of the Holy Trinity to be born into this world as a baby.
I have no way to even begin to comprehend all He left behind to come
and
yet
God’s Son;
GOD’S
SON
DECIDED
to
do
exactly
that.
He knew what this world was like.
He knew why He was coming.
He knew what He would endure while He was here.
He knew He would come to His own and His own would not receive Him. – John 1:11
And
Still
He
Chose
To
Come.
That’s how much He loves you and me.
“The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made though him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”
John 1:9-12 esv
