God's Passion

Is you.

The magic of the Christmas story is that God loved you and I so much that He went to extravagant measures just to 'have' us. What could cause a God to lay aside all glory and power to become a baby? God makes it very clear that it was love.

Can you imagine God being limited by the brain of a child? It is an interesting thought. Physically He was limited. Mary had to tend to His every need. He cried for His food. His mother had to clean Him. He was a baby.

Christ didn't just become a baby for you. He lived an entire life for you. I said this Wednesday night but if I had to die for the sins of the world I would prefer to just show up fully grown, have a guy stick a spear in my side, expire and be done with it. In and out. Yet Christ  endured an entire life and it was all to redeem us. Think about it. He knows what a stomach ache feels like. He had blisters on His feet for you. He experienced the sorrow of loved ones dying, the pain of rejection and even the shame of nakedness. All just so He could 'come near.'

O how much God must love you.

God's passion is you. Is yours God?