The Greatest Gift

   If I asked most Christians what they thought was the greatest miracle,  I know almost everyone would say Christ's sacrifice and His resurrection.  It is true that that event changed everything and made a way that the fallen race of Adam could come home again.  Paradise lost....could be regained through faith in Christ.  To be honest though, I would expect the God of the universe to defeat death but who would have really believed that the same creator of all things could be manifest in a lttle baby in Bethlehem.  Think about it.  God is outside our plane of existance reaching in.  He did not make all things from part of himself...but apart from himself.  Created from nothing (bara).  God is non-linear.  God is not subject to time, he does not age, he does not sleep and require sustenance.  He is perfect and complete.  To God everything is in the now.  From His perspective he sees me at this computer, sees His Son upon the cross and at the same time the marriage supper of the lamb.  We on the other hand are stuck in linear time, constantly moving forward in time. We age...and we die.  But God loved us so much that he stepped out of his non-linear existence and in the person of His Son, Jesus...entered our linear history.  God layed aside His robe of majesty and girded Himself with the towel of humanity.  It is His birth that divides history.  Our hopes, our dreams and God's greatest gift....all wrapped in swaddeling clothes....little baby Jesus.... laying in a manger.  May you be blessed by the wonderful miracle of His Birth.   Merry Christmas!!