Christmas Eve

 Thursday, December 24, 2020

Tell Me About the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional Guide

“The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:14

Some had seen God’s shekinah glory, a great light that shown brighter than anything they knew. They’d seen the fire that led the children in the wilderness at night. They’d seen the cloud that led them by day. In a vision, Isaiah had seen the “Lord, high and lifted up.” But to actually see him? Nobody had.

And now here on that first Christmas, the holy day on our calendar that we celebrate tomorrow, the world is about to see God – wrapped in human flesh and swaddling clothes. God, helpless in a manger, His first lullabies the lowing of a cow, the baaing of a sheep.

All grace and truth lie before us, looking for all the world like any other baby – dark and soft, sweet-smelling and fragile. God whom nobody had ever seen or understood had come to earth to live for thirty-three years.

God came so we could know Him. John says, “This is eternal life, that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.”

How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given, as God imparts to human hearts the blessing of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in.

Merry Christmas, Father.

Tell Me About the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional Guide

prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2010
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator