GOD'S CHRISTMAS DAY :)

     "The child born in the night among the beasts. The sweet breath and steaming dung of beasts. And nothing is ever the same again.

     Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure  of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of man....

     For those who believe in God, it means, this birth, that God is never safe from us, and maybe that is the dark side of Christmas....He comes in such a way that we can always turn him down, as we could crack the baby's skull like an eggshell or nail him up when he gets too big for that..."

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  "How did Christmas day feel to God? Imagine for a moment becoming a baby again: giving up language and muscle coordination, and the ability to eat solid food and control your bladder. God as a fetus!...On that day in Bethlehem, the Maker of All That Is took form as a helpless, dependent newborn.

     "Kenosis" is the technical word theologians use to describe Christ emptying himself of the disadvantages of deity. Ironically, while the emptying involved much humiliation, it also involved a kind of freedom. A physical body freed Christ to act on a human scale, without those "disadvantages" (of infinity). He could say what He wanted without His voice blasting the treetops. He could express anger by calling King Herod a fox or by reaching for a bullwhip in the temple, rather than shaking the earth with His stormy presence. And he could talk to anyone-- a prostitute, a blind man, a widow, a leper-- without first having to announce, "Fear not!"

Publish Post-Philip Yancey, Disappointment With God 

Merry Christmas everyone!:)