It was the ultimate condescension. The Son laying aside His God-powers temporarily and leaving the halls of heaven to inhabit a human body. The greatest work had to be done, and this was the way it had to be accomplished. And now, God was literally with us in flesh and blood.

The birth of Christ was like no other man. It was not the natural entrance of one who would become an important historical figure. This was different altogether. As we come to remember and celebrate the entrance of Christ (which is a vitally important thing to do), it is easy to bend to the temptation to treat it humanistically. Satan would like nothing more than to denigrate it to Claus and commercialism. To divert our attention from the glory of Christ.

But the disciple Jesus loved will not let us do that. His words in the opening chapter of the gospel of John overwhelm us (if we will pause and gaze there) with statements about Christ’s birth that take our breath away in John 1:14-18. They pull us back from the world’s distortions of Christmas, helping us to sing like the angels and bow like the shepherds.

The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.
Verse 14

It was the ultimate condescension. The Son laying aside His God-powers temporarily and leaving the halls of heaven to inhabit a human body. The greatest work had to be done, and this was the way it had to be accomplished. And now, God was literally with us in flesh and blood.

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