everything was ready ...

I mentioned last week that for the month of December I wanted to share something I absolutely love ... The Jesus Storybook Bible. We love using this book for our advent family devotions ....

"It had taken centuries for God's people to be ready, but now the time had almost come for the best part of God's plan.

God himself was going to come. Not to punish His people - but to rescue them ...

Everything was ready. The moment God had been waiting for was here at last! God was coming to help His people, just as He promised in the beginning.

But how would He come? What would He be like? What would He do?

Mountains would have bowed down. Seas would have roared. Trees would have clapped their hands. But the earth held its breath. As silent as snow falling, He came in. And when no one was looking, in the darkness, He came."

{The Jesus Storybook Bible p.175 - 176}

 

 

When I was 11-years-old, our church did a Christmas play & we sang a song called "Close To Him" ... I still remember most of the lyrics ...

 

He wants to be close to His children, so He'll become a child.

A helpless little baby, a Savior meek & mild.

He'll leave His home in heaven, to prove His love is real.

And be born as a baby, just so man can feel ... close to Him

 

He came into the world as a baby .... just like the rest of us. He would know physical pain, joy, anger, & all that it meant to be human .... just like the rest of us.

 I know we've all heard it a million times, but isn't it something how God could have sent Jesus to save the world any way He wanted to .... & he chose to send Him as a baby ... in a manger! Not as earthly royalty or as some mighty warrior ... just a simple baby ... just like the rest of us. All so He could know us better. How sweet He is to us!