Christmas
and time for a New Cradle
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the
inn.
They laid Him in a manger!
Jesus came from the majesty filled with
heavenly splendour to a manger filled with a bed of straw. From an open vastness
of the Trinity’s dwelling place. To tiny confines of a wooden box manger in a
stable.
The Incarnation is incredible, it is
also undeniable. The manger marches across history yet still remains in the dark
shadows of the original stable and the shadows of our minds.
The invasion, the intrusion of divinity
into the heaving masses of humanity is totally breathtaking and yet for those
people who believe its actuality it is life giving. It is pure heavenly oxygen.
The manger is magnificent in its
plainness, ordinariness and nothingness.
It stands in the shadows of a common
stable in Bethlehem, like a throne of shimmering light greater than the throne
in Herod’s palace in Jerusalem. Role
reversal is realized.
The message of the manger defies wisdom
and understanding generally speaking yet it defines the divine purpose and the
measure of Divine love. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved.
There is an answer here for any
question that might be asked
A Child is born and the cry of the baby
would quickly become the battle cry in his fight for supremacy and right to save
his people from their sin.
The Lord Jesus Christ came to win the
fight not to lose the fight for his love was to prove utterly deadly in its
fulfilment. He was to slice a path of truth in a world poisoned with lies and
deceit. The saviour would level the field of life, - uneven for so many people
and give them the possibility of standing on a level field of faith enabling
each person to see by guiding the eye to a cruel cross and beyond to the
horizons of heaven.
He would draw straight lines in crooked
places. Silencing the self righteousness and would make timid troubled sinners
shout for joy.
This Christmas time let us give Him a new cradle of a warm loving heart from which He can make a new beginning. Come to my heart Lord Jesus there is room for you – today.
30/11/2007