Twenty-two days from today is Christmas Day!! The day that changed life forever on Planet Earth!
You would never know that Christmas was only three weeks away if you turned on one of the cable TV news stations. The political bickering and attacking never seems to stop.
This story may sound ridiculous, but it gives us an idea of what it means when we say God became human and made his dwelling among us……
Imagine the most powerful and prestigious person in the world, the President of the United States. Of his own free-will, the President becomes a mouse — small, furry, insignificant, and extremely helpless and vulnerable.
He chooses to become a mouse because he wants to live among all the other mice. He leaves the White House, and the prestige and honor that go with his office. He becomes a mouse in order to help all the other mice in our country and around the world.
You see, there are mousetraps in kitchens all around the world. The people who own these kitchens are determined to kill every last mouse. And one after another the mice are killed.
The President shouts at all the other mice until he is hoarse to warn them of the danger and he shoos them away, but the smelly cheese on the deadly mousetraps is just too inviting.
And so the most powerful man in the world happily becomes a mouse because he loves all mice and wants to do something to save them.
In a similar way and in a more radical way, the all-powerful and eternal God has chosen to plunge himself into the arena of human life as you and I live it, and to take on the flesh and bones of our humanity.
Thanks to Vince Gerhardy for sharing this story.
My Commentary:
This incredible story invites us to contemplate the unimaginable humility of God. Picture the President of the United States — surrounded by power, protected by layers of security — freely choosing to become a tiny, fragile mouse.
He abandons status, privilege, and comfort so he can live among the least, speak their language, share their dangers, and ultimately save them from the destruction they cannot see or resist.
It is an absurd idea on the surface, and yet it is only a faint echo of what God has actually done. For in the Incarnation, the eternal and almighty God stepped down from glory into the vulnerability of human life.
He took on our flesh and bone, our limitations, our dangers, our sorrows. He entered the “kitchen” of our world, where traps of sin, fear, and brokenness are set everywhere.
He did not remain distant, shouting warnings from beyond. Instead, He came among us — one of us — to guide, protect, and ultimately rescue us through love.
This story reminds us that God’s greatness is revealed not in power retained but in power surrendered. True love does not tower above, it draws near. True compassion does not stay safe, it enters the struggle.
And the Savior we worship is not one who remained in heaven commanding us from afar, but one who became Emmanuel — God with us — so that no trap, no darkness, no death could ever have the final word over His beloved.
Please spend 10 minutes meditating on how the all-powerful and eternal God plunged himself into the arena and kitchen of human life by taking on the flesh and bones of our humanity – in the person of Baby Jesus!
EVERYDAY GOD THINKS OF YOU! EVERY HOUR GOD LOOKS AFTER YOU! EVERY MINUTE GOD CARES FOR YOU, BECAUSE EVERY SECOND GOD LOVES YOU!
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