Divinity Arrived

"As moments go, ( the moment of incarnation) appeared no different than any other. If you could somehow pick it up off the timeline and examine it, it would look exactly like the ones that have passed while you read these words...But in reality, that particular moment 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." Max Lucado, God Came Near.

Isn't it amazing what we don't notice? There is this link that is floating around on the web that is a video. It challenges you to count how many times a basketball is passed from person to person during a game. Then at the end of the video it asks if you noticed the moonwalking bear. I watched that video the first time and of course missed the moonwalking bear. It is amazing what we miss when we are focused on other things. We get so incredibly busy with our lives that we miss really important things. Like the quote from one of my favorite books that I have at the beginning of this blog says, "while the creatures of earth walked unaware, Divinity arrived." That's a pretty huge thing to miss isn't it? God came to earth and the only people that knew it were some shepherds and wise men and that is because angels shouted it out and they noticed a big ol star in the sky!
When I read this quote, I got to thinking about how busy our lives are. Work, Family, school, church, social activities... the list goes on and on. And at Christmas time it just gets worse! We have to add decorating, buying presents for people, family get-togethers, holiday baking, etc. to the endless list of things to do. So, it shouldn't surprise me that we tend to miss the real meaning of Christmas too, huh? Even over 2000 years later, we are still missing that God came to earth! That's what we celebrate isn't it? Isn't that what Christmas is really about? Celebrating that Jesus came as our true gift that we don't deserve!
So... maybe we could just take the time to slow down for a second and not miss the complete awesomeness that He came to earth knowing He would be our sacrifice for sin. That He humbled himself enough to be God in human form. That he came as a baby. And that he came for us. Let's not miss that.