A Reflection on the Meaning of Christmas
As I have been thinking about Christmas over the past couple of weeks and considering its real meaning, the word that keeps coming to me is accessibility. At the heart of it, what Christmas means is that in it, God became accessible to us. You know, as I have talked to hundreds of people over the years who have struggled to connect with God, the most common theme I have heard is that for many, God is just too totally other. He is too awesome, too powerful, too holy, too mystical, or too whatever. But Christmas is about God bridging the gap between us and Him and connecting with us in a way that we can relate to. As Paul says in the letter to the Philippians: 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appe...