All About Him

This is one my favorite Christmas songs.

Read through the lyrics.

You can also listen to it with the link below…

It’s still a mystery to me
That the hands of God could be so small,
How tiny fingers reaching in the night
Were the very hands that measured the sky

Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven’s love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Son of God, Servant King,
You’re here with us
You’re here with us

It’s still a mystery to me,
How His infant eyes have seen the dawn of time
How His ears have heard an angel’s symphony,
But still Mary had to rock her Savior to sleep

Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven’s love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Son of God, Servant King
Here with us
You’re here with us

Jesus the Christ, born in Bethlehem
A baby born to save, to save the souls of man

Hallelujah, hallelujah
Heaven’s love reaching down to save the world
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Son of God, Servant King
You’re here with us
You’re here with us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5-95_Byjo

I was back in Galatians 4 this week and I was mostly processing through the first part of verse 4…

“But when the fullness of time had come…”

All week I was thinking about our current place in time and how that relates to Christmas.

Our current place in time is in the middle.

What am I talking about?  In the middle?

I really like boiling things down to the simplest level.  I try not to get too buried in the complexities until I have first started with the groundwork.  In our timeline’s simplest form I see it like this…

Before Christ Came

1^st Coming

In the Middle

2^nd Coming

The prophesies were made and so many waited and anticipated the promised Savior’s birth.  They didn’t know it, but they were waiting for the very first Christmas.  Words can never express all Christ accomplished in His first coming (John 21:25), but we know He came; He lived, He healed, He taught, He died and rose again completing the work God the Father had given Him.  Then, He promised He would come back again.  We live in anticipation of His coming again – in the middle of the two comings.

What an amazing blessing it is to live here and now – in the middle.

We celebrate Christmas because we live in the middle.

When the fullness of time had come, He was born.

The fullness of time is coming again.

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

Happy December everyone!

God has had me in Galatians this morning; particularly chapters 3 and 4.

As I have been talking to God about preparing my heart for Christmas, He has been teaching me to see the bigger picture of all we are truly celebrating.

I have always spent time at Christmas focusing on all that surrounded Jesus being born.  I would consider and reflect on a young engaged couple, a journey with a donkey, an innkeeper, a manger, shepherds and angels, kings bringing gifts and all the details of that amazing story.

Now, I am coming to realize that remembering the story surrounding Christ’s birth is only

a

small

part

of

the

whole

celebration.

“Christ came” seems so small in relation to the truth of that moment in history.

God has been teaching me that Christmas is so much more than the manger scene.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman…”

Galatians 4:4 esv

The coming of the promised Savior marked an amazing moment in time.

It was THE beginning of God’s plan set in motion.

Without Christmas there would be no Easter.

Without a birth there would be no cross.

This December, I am going to be spending time on my knees, at His feet and in His Word learning straight from God Himself to see the bigger picture of CHRISTmas and blogging about what He is teaching me.

Want to join me?