Sweet Blessed Savior, you humbled Yourself to leave Your heavenly throne to dwell among men. Your mother was a poor, young village girl, Your earthly father a carpenter, and the place of Your birth was a manger in a city looked upon with scorn. You came into the world just like me … born of a woman. You remained subject to Your parents until You took up the mission to which You had been sent … to save lost sinners. As a tiny infant, You could not have conceived the Great Promise You had come to fulfill. As a newborn baby, laying helplessly in a bed of hay, no one could imagine the tremendous impact that You would have on the earth. How beautiful You must have been to Mary and Joseph and how proud of their new infant son they must have been. How wonderful it is to think about how much You mean to me because of Your gift of eternal life.
Because You were born of woman, You are a human being but, because You were divinely conceived, You are also Divine. Since You came as a man, You fully understand my experiences and struggles. You have lived through everything I have experienced and understand what causes me to live up to and fail Your expectations. As God, You have been given the power to forgive my sins and give me everlasting life. To be sure that Your earthly parents and all of us who would follow could understand the significance of Your birth, Your Father sent an angel and the Holy Spirit to help us comprehend its meaning. You came to earth to save me because I could not help myself. You did not come to help me save myself … You came to be my Savior. As the Promise of the Father, the new life that I have been given is the result of giving control of it and submitting it to You.
You are my Emmanuel (God is with me) and are the fulfillment of what was prophesied by Isaiah. When You were born, men from divergent backgrounds came to praise Your birth (the Shepherds and Wise Men), but the Devil went to work immediately to destroy You through Herod. Your Father warned the Wise Men to journey home bypassing Jerusalem and Joseph (in a dream) to take You and Your mother to Egypt for safety. He was not about to have His Eternal Plan thwarted by a rogue, rebellious, fallen angel. I rejoice in the fact that You also warn me of impending danger with the hope I will listen. What Herod could not understand was that You did not want to take away his throne … just become his King. Rather than feel like I am having to give up something to make You Lord, I want to see You as the gift Promised of the Father. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Luke 2:9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them (the shepherds) … and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you, He is Christ the Lord.”