- 15th century Russian icon
No matter our theological differences, Protestant or Catholic, we join in this holy season in saying out loud, slowly, with awe, "God with us. God actually born to us, a baby, fully human by simple observation and fully divine by the promises of our Father known by the prophecies of the centuries. He sent His very self to be laid in our hands, to be loved by His mother, taught by her husband, killed by all of us in our sins, to be raised by the power of God to triumph over those sins and open the gates of Heaven." We can't glory in the tenderness of the beginning without seeing the agony and power of the end. We can't see the love of the end without seeing the love of the beginning.
Merry Christmas! May God richly bless all my brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ!
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Real God made really man. Scandalous in its implications, yet the best gift possible. If this be possible, what lengths will God go for love of the people he made?
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