Today, we have our annual Christmas brunch and program. I hope and pray that today is a time of joy and celebration. I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to listening to the kids and teens as they present their Christmas programs.
As I reflect upon this very thing, once again, I am struck by both the simplicity and depth of God’s Grand Story as revealed in the Bible.
On the one hand, God’s Story is simple enough for a child to understand. In fact, this morning, children will be telling part of God’s Story—the story of Christmas—to us. They will tell us of a day that changed everything. The eternal Son of God took on flesh, becoming a man, so that God could redeem sinful men … and that is the reason we celebrate Christmas.
On the other hand, we can study God’s Word for all of our lives and still not plumb the depths of His revelation to us. That’s even true of the story of Christmas. The concept of the eternal Son of God becoming a man is mind-blowing if we try to understand its full significance and implications. Yet, that is what happened at Christmas. The little baby that was born in Bethlehem was the one and only God-Man, Jesus Christ, who would live a perfect sinless life, die to pay the penalty for our sins, and rise from the dead that we may have hope of eternal life. What an amazing and mind-blowing thing.
It is simple enough for a child to understand and even teach, yet it is so deep a lifetime of study cannot exhaust the depths of wisdom to be found in God’s True Story as revealed in the Bible.
Simply amazing! What a great God!
In His grip,
Pastor Decker
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