He Came

My apologies for failing to keep you posted on "30 Days of Gratefulness". Suffice it to say, it was a fruitful time for our church and for me, personally. I hope your Thanksgiving season was colored with many remembrances of God's gracious hand.

With Thanksgiving now past, I couldn't help but take a sneak peek at one of my favorite Christmas Scriptures - John 1:1-18 ("In the beginning was the Word..."). It got me thinking about the phenomenal nature of the Incarnation; not just Christ's ability to become flesh and blood, but His willingness to do so. I thought for some time about what it must have been like to leave heaven's glory for the life (and death) Christ would experience on earth.

I thought, and then I wrote.

He Came

He came
To dust and sweat,
To anger, tears, and unspeakable pain.
He came
To calluses,
Aching feet,
And blazing sun,
To the filth of a stable and of sinful souls,
To chaos
And clamor,
To a world devoid of hope.
He came
To HIS creation.
He came
To HIS people.
He came
To that which was HIS OWN,
Yet they did not –
Would not –
Receive Him.
He came
To discomfort,
To rude shelters and rhythms,
To humanness.
To ornery,
Self-centered,
Unknowingly desperate people.
He came
From His Father’s side,
From unspeakable glory,
From light,
From praise,
From prostrated hosts
Of brothers and sisters;
The generations of His inheritance
And His fellow heirs:
Those not deserving glory
But having gained it
Through Him.
He came
Not to condemn
But to save,
Not to throw away the keys
But to loose the shackles
And free sin’s prisoners.
To redeem a traitorous, rebellious race
And to make them His family,
His ambassadors,
His friends.
He came
Willingly
And without complaint;
Without argument,
Without reticence,
Without regret,
Without looking back,
While keeping His eyes firmly fixed on His Father.
He came
TO sinners.
He came
FOR sinners.
He endured
The indignities,
The injustice,
The inconvenience,
The sacrifice.
He came
So that I might LIVE,
Truly live.

I hope you'll take some time this Christmas to consider Christ, who came to earth, and to consider why He did. May this be another blessed season of remembrance for you and your household.

Blessings,
Megan