A Thought On The Manger

2,000 years ago, the most incredible event happened in history! God stepped down into the world as fully flesh and fully God and was born into the world as a helpless babe and placed into a manger! We can read about this account in the gospel and just say, "Cool" and then move right on to His life and death on the cross. But, I would encourage you as I have myself this year to truly meditate on the account of God placing Himself into history! Jesus took himself out of a place of Glory and Splendor, a place where He and the rest of the Trinity shared a perfect, unblemished relationship and entered into the world as weak, miry flesh to offer something that would rock everyone's world! He exchanged a place of Sinlessness for a place that would be infested with SIN! He exchanged a place that is absent from brokenness, sorrow, grief, pain and hate for a place that possessed all of these things in fullness! The exchange that Christ made is an incredible mystery! Not one of us could ever understand the LOVE of God! We are so far away from such mystery, that we can only use experiences and relationships to try and understand the Love of God. And still fall extremely short! As we think on the historical account of the Messiah taking His place into the world to bring Salvation to all that would receive it, I challenge you along with myself to dwell on the exchange Christ made when He left glory to walk amongst us! I have been thinking about this incredible exchange and the more and more I dwell on such an incredible account, the more I am amazed and mesmerized by what He did for us! So as you recall the Shining Star, the Shepherds, the Angels, Mary and Joseph, the manger and everything that represents the Beautiful Christmas Story, don't forget to take time and dwell on the mysterious account in Jesus' exchange when He chose to become flesh and live amongst us! It makes me say, "Oh, What a Savior. Oh What Love, Oh What a Salvation, Oh What an Exchange!"

Merry Christmas,
Twiga