Happy Birthday, Jesus!

We've heard all the stuff about Christmas being about family and friends and not presents and it being about  Jesus' birth, so at the risk of being redundant and cliche..it is SO about the BIRTH of GOD on EARTH!

How much more humble does it get than that?? Than a king, living life with us common-folk. Being born in a barn, surrounded by animals...that stink. It is UNFATHOMABLE.

I'm going to plagiarize a part of a blog I wrote a couple years ago that I just stumbled on.

I was reading Luke 3 which speaks on the genealogy of our Savior Himself. I read through some familiar names, Obed son of Boaz, Jacob son of Isaac, son of Abraham, all the way back to Adam, Son of God. How amazing it starts with God! He created humanity, was the father of Adam, and yet generations down the road He appears again, in humanity WITH US. He stepped down from his throne of glory to walk in dirt, eat dinner with his mom, get slivers at work, and go fishing with his friends. He became an everyday, ordinary, one of us.

2 Corinthians 8:9 says “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” He stepped down for our sake! For our inheritance!

I’m reminded of the song “How Many Kings” that says:

‘How many kings, stepped down from their thrones?
How many lords have abandoned their homes?
How many greats have become the least for me?
How many Gods have poured out their hearts
To romance a world that has torn all apart?
How many fathers gave up their sons for me?
Only one did that for me’

In His humility He gave it all up for us. There isn’t another human on this planet that can love like that. And, there is no other god spoken of on this earth, that loves this much. He is the only God that stepped into His creation to endure what we endure. He is the only God worthy of our worship and praises.

Hebrews 2:17-18 tells us that “He had to be made like his brothers in every way … [and] because He Himself suffered when he was tempted, He is able to help those who are tempted.”

We don’t serve a distant god, or an uninvolved father. We serve a God of humility, great enough to disrobe His glory and take on the mundane tasks of life, the betrayal of friends, the struggle of temptations. And when life becomes ordinary and repetitive, we can say that even God Himself lived a plain life on this earth for us.

Thank you, Jesus. For caring the way you do. For devising a plan to save me. For your all sufficient grace. For your example of humility. For being Love. For being my "Wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace"

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, to the 3 people that read my blog:)

AND A VERY HAPPY 2010th BIRTHDAY to you, Jesus! You. are. THE MAN.

In the words of someone wise:

2,010 is the new 21!