Plain and Simple Truth
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While we were unpacking our Fisher Price nativity scene last week I asked the kids, “Why do you think Jesus came as a baby? I mean, he could have come as a King or a grown up or a warrior…” My grade schoolers offered thoughtful replies…
“Maybe he came as a baby so no one would be afraid of Him. I don’t think God wants us to be afraid of Him.”
“Yeah, if He had come as a warrior, no one would dare get close to him…”
Pause. My preschooler picks up the pudgy plastic shepherds from the nativity set and attempts some karate moves with the little sheep herders in hand. “Maybe the shepherds would have tried to fight Jesus with their big sticks if he was a grown up.”
“Or maybe He came as a baby so he could know what it was like to be little. That way He can understand us better,” my eight-year-old offered.
Josh put the kung-fu sheep guys down and sighed. “Mom,” he said in a know-it-all voice. “Jesus came as a baby because a grown up king would never have fit in Mary’s TUMMY!”
All eyes turned to stare at our littlest boy and I wondered just when we’d all begun to make Christmas so complicated. I don’t know about you, but I am guilty of making the holiday season complicated. Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest… for my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.” Matthew 11: 28, 30. But Instead of celebrating the One who came to lift my burdens, I have an uncanny knack for picking up a sack of stresses the size of Santa’s pack and spreading frazzle rather than faith.
Today, I am choosing to focus on this simply glorious truth: God fit himself into a young girls’ womb so that I could fit into His forever family. By His own choosing, Christ came. Not as a warrior, a wise-man or a diplomat, but as a baby whose ten tiny toes would one day walk to Calvary in my place. That’s grace- plain and simple.
The Overflow: “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” -Luke 2:11-12
The Overflow: “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” -Luke 2:11-12
I think I will smile all day about this adorable post! I love every bit of it…your kids radiate the love of Christ that you have planted in them!