God With Us

For this week's Pastor's Devotion, allow me to share with you a quote from Max Lucado's book, "God Came Near" which I used recently in one of my sermons: 

"It all happened in a moment, a most remarkable moment that was like none other. For through that segment of time a spectacular thing occurred. God became a man.  While the creatures of earth walked unaware, Divinity arrived.  Heaven opened herself and placed her most precious one in a human womb.

God as a fetus. Holiness sleeping in a womb. The creator of life being created.

God was given eyebrows, elbows, two kidneys, and a spleen.  He stretched against the walls and floated in the amniotic fluids of his mother. 

God had come near. No silk. No ivory. No hype. To think of Jesus in such a light is—well, it seems almost irreverent, doesn’t it. It is much easier to keep the humanity out of the incarnation.

But don’t do it. For heaven’s sake, don’t. Let him be as human as he intended to be. Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out."  

As we remember all that God has done through us through the coming of Jesus, let us worship Him with joy!  Jesus is "God with us!" 

Have a blessed Christmas!  

Pastor Tim Harris