This is my last post for the year. I will spend the next couple of weeks resting in the wonder of a Love that came down to earth as a baby. I hope we will meet again next year to continue in this journey of faith together.

My prayer for you this Christmas, my friends, is that you would experience anew this Love that came down on Christmas. May you pause in stillness and consider the depths of Love that took on flesh for you and for me. Ponder it in your heart, the wonder of a child born to save. Consider what it means that a holy, righteous, infinite God would enter into this sin stained world to rescue us. Behold your Savior and rejoice that God became man-Immanuel, God with us.

And may this Christmas season draw you ever closer to Him.

“Mighty God (Is. 9:6) is the name of this child. The child in the manger is none other than God himself. Nothing greater can be said: God became a child. In the Jesus child of Mary lives the almighty God. Wait a minute! Don’t speak; stop thinking! Stand still before this statement! God became a child! Here he is, poor like us, miserable and helpless like us, a person of flesh and blood like us, our brother. And yet he is God; he is might. Where is the divinity, where is the might of the child? In the divine love in which he became like us. His poverty in the manger in his might. In the might of love he overcomes the chasm between God and humankind, he overcomes sin and death, he forgives sin and awakens from the dead. Kneel down before this miserable manger, before this child of poor people, and repeat in faith the stammering words of the prophet: “Mighty God!” And he will be your God and your might.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Merry Christmas to you and yours!