12/25/17: Christmas 2017: A God Who Comes in Poverty and Weakness

Whenever we hear the moving story of Christmas, we are faced with the question, "Why was it this way?" Why didn't God choose that his Son would be born into the world in much better (and cleaner) circumstances? We would never have chosen for our child to be born in this way ... yet that seems precisely the point. The things that we work so hard to attain in this life -- wealth, power, popularity, pleasure -- mean nothing to God. And the fact that he comes into the messiness of the world mean that he is willing to come into the messiness of my life...

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