To find God we must look deeply into the Cross that Jesus willingly accepted!

To find God we must look deeply into the Cross that Christ willingly accepted!

Into the final week of our finding the real meaning of this assumption of the Incarnation we must first see the sin that man loves so much that it would take the divinity of God to greet our lowliness and become one like us.  

As children awake on Christmas morning cheering gleefully at the prizes that seemed to appear, the joy of laughter and pleasing expressions from all of them fills our hearts with satisfaction of giving them our love.  

Now, as we anticipate the arrival of the Son of God and prepare to find the expected blessedness promised from his Father it is our turn to shout with laughter and pleasing expressions knowing there is more to this than a gift wrapped in tissue.  iI is Jesus Christ wrapped in the clothing of humanity that has arrived to forgive us our sins.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.  (C.S. Lewis)  Through that miracle we shall find that salvation in many hidden ways until the Crucifixion.  However, each of us will continue the praise of this new-born baby with diligence and awe as we follow his growth in our small existence to see ourselves learning to accept our own journey to our Father.  

We individuals have to appropriate that salvation.  But the really tough work - the bit we could not have done for ourselves - has been done for us.  We have not got to try to climb up into spiritual life by our own effort; it has already come down into the human race.  If we will only lay ourselves open to the one Man in whom it was fully present, and in spite of being God, is also a real man, he will do it in us and for us.  (C.S. Lewis  Mere Christianity).

In two days we shall be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ; may this beginning of our Gratitude to Almighty God stay with us throughout the season of Christmas which should be a lif-long remembrance as long as we are alive.  

Ralph B. Hathaway