Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with man to dwell;
Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Loving this part of the great carol “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” at the moment.
At The Plant Christmas Carol services this weekend we looked at John 1:1-5 and Mike talked to us about who Jesus really is.
Jesus was in the beginning with God and, infact, he was God. Jesus made everything, but then took on flesh and became a tiny baby.
Think about it: the one who flung stars, galaxies and comets out into the cosmos became an unconscious embryo. And after his birth, he spent that first Christmas being breast fed, crying and sleeping. Not a particularly spectacular entrance!
We sing about it every Christmas time, but I know for one, I’m pretty good at forgetting that in that baby Jesus, we had the God who held the universe in the palm of his hand coming down to live with us – if we’d lived 2000 years ago, we could have seen and touched those tiny hands that hung the stars in their places in the universe!
Pretty hard to get your head round isn’t it? Almighty God becoming a small, pathetic and helpless baby? Of course, the question that begs to be asked is why on earth did he do it?
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