"In the Flesh, GOD!"
The Thought of GOD INCARNATE, is not a small thought. Prophets for millenniums could not fully fathom its depths. Commentaries and countless books have been written about it. It is HUGE...and certainly, I'm not going to cover it but a grain of sand's worth.
To think that God would give up anything to become a human is beyond me. To imagine compressing, all that God is into a small human form. To try and grasp the limitations He would subject Himself to, such as time and space, in order to be acquainted with our griefs and our sorrows...Is more than I can seem to understand from my selfish perspective.
In my human frame, I look at it all, and realize, I would NOT do the same. I do NOT do the same.
How often I am led by my own selfish motivations, unwilling to go to lengths of such significance. NOR CAN I... It is NOT in mankind's ability or power. There is NO resource within us to be able to accomplish the same measure of self sacrifice. For one we are only fully human, born under the curse of sin, and therefore, sinful. Jesus was fully human, but he was also fully GOD! There's the game changer!
Think about Christmas for a moment. This is the Power of CHRISTmas to me...Not that the sweet little vulnerable baby Jesus was born...as we oooh and aaaahh as if at any other little baby...."oh how sweet" - But instead, with mouth wide open, dumbstruck in shock, stunned at the weight of it, almost terrified at the thought of it, much the way the angels shouted and exclaimed, stunned that GOD, the one who spoke all things into existence would so conceal and limit himself and embed Himself into a world so torn, broken and destitute.
- 'OH MY GOD!' Why would you do such a thing for me?' How is it that you didn't think this unfitting for you to do, to enter my world, to humble yourself so much, to give up your Throne for a feeding troth?!'
No wonder the Angels heralded His coming...THEY KNEW he was worthy! No wonder They looked on PERPLEXED and amazed at the Greatest Gift to man. That HE WOULD COME, compelled by LOVE, to restore a creation that was completely LOST and without HOPE had He not come!
I Pray that each person gets to enjoy the Season of Love, Peace and Joy. The Love of God that compelled Him to Incarnate Human flesh, to be acquainted with our Griefs and sorrows, living among us, dying for us & Rising in power to prove His ability to restore us. Such Love brings a rejoining, redeeming and reconciling - Which is true peace, and that understanding anchors our hearts in the most tumultuous of situations, assuring our hearts and strengthening our souls with true joy.
I don't think we are to live as if today is to be our last and try to set all of our ducks in a row before we meet our maker. BUT to --LIVE-- as if its our first...out of amazement, awe, and a security and power stronger than death....a revelation that makes us see eternity, and His Throne as more real, more tangible, more substantial than any earthly elation or trial.
May we each allow the truths of each season, regardless of when in the year it is, to awaken our desperate hearts.
 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 1:1-14