Incarnation v Christmas

I am amazed at all the effort people put into making Christmas special,
serious money on presents decorations and food,
serious time preparing food and getting the house ready.

I don’t get it.

If we half understood the incarnation,
out hears would be buzzing,
without any need for the hype.

God has come to us.
We did not have to go to him,
which is just as well because we couldn’t.

Humans had shut God out of the world he had created and given to us.
We had given the world he entrusted to us, over to a destroyer,
but he has broken back into his world to set us free.

God has come to us as a human person,
who we can relate to,
not as an important dignitary, we have to make an appointment to see;
or flying in as a superman, filling us with fear and terror;
but as a baby, among the animals outside the house,
vulnerable and open in the midst of life.

God came to us;
to relate to us, and be our friends;
by defeating evil, and rescue the world;
to restore creation and establish a peaceful kingdom.

The birth of Jesus was the biggest game-changer in history;
something so wonderful should not have happened.