Are you EXCITED for Christmas?

a brief look at what you should really be excited about on Christmas

There is always some confusion as to what is the true "reason for the season."  Let's try to straighten it out. 

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus - God in the flesh! 
"The word became FLESH and made His dwelling among us.  We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only..." As humans, we have to see to believe, we love tangible things, and putting a face with a name.  Jesus came to us- in person, in the FLESH. This is Immanuel- God is with us.  "Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death...and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death."  

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus- who was born to do that which we had been failing for centuries to accomplish.  He kept God's law.  It was something we could not and would not complete.  Then He died so that His perfection could be applied to us.  "Through the obedience of the One man, the many will be made Righteous." This is Jehovah Shalom- The LORD is our peace. 

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus- who came humbly.  Why would the God of the Universe be willing to become a baby, living with imperfect humans? Why would He volunteer to become a man, walking among a people who hated him?  Why would He humbly give up His place as King of the Universe?  
"...he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—        even death on a cross!"
That is a Christmas Miracle.  

John 1:14
Hebrews 2:15
Romans 5:19
Philippians 2:7-8