The Great Fact of Christmas
December 26th, 2018 by G.
We got a Christmas card this year that said something like “celebrating the birth of the great I AM.” It is a juxtaposition that startles if you let it, a little baby being born and the great I AM, Jehovah Lord of Armies and a helpless infant.
As a holiday, though, Christmas is just about Him. At Easter, we do and should think about our personal benefit in tough and intimate terms from the Saviour’s victory over death and sin. At Christmas, its all about the baby. So its appropriate that we celebrate Him in all his aspects. It’s appropriate that it makes for a great party.
Christina Rossetti
December 27, 2018
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom Cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom Angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.