This season, I have been pondering what Christmas is all about. Christmas is a time where we celebrate God drawing near to us. From the time of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God, there has existed a distance between us and God. A damaged relationship. When we have a damaged relationship with another person, someone has to make the first move to repair it. That’s what God did with Jesus’s birth. He made the first move. He filled the gap. God made it possible for us to draw near to Him, through Jesus. Paul sums it up very well in Ephesians 2:1-5. “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of the world…But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us…made us alive with Christ”.
Jesus is the “but God”. God reached down for us, “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) so that we could be alive in Him. “In Him (Jesus) was life, and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4)
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