the Bible says in Philippians 2:8 that when Jesus came to be our savior he humbled himself and became a man the most powerful one in the universe coming as the most helpless dependent one he was not helpless in the sense that he was God but in his Humanity he was helpless I really believe it was intended to show forth how we come to God Jesus said as you heard me say earlier that unless we become as little children we cannot come into the kingdom of God that doesn’t mean we have to be childish that means we have to become
like little children in our hearts children have a wonderful humble way of believing they know what faith is they accept things without all of the stuff that we often put into the equation the humility Simplicity helplessness of a child pictures how we come to God when we are saved we say Lord God I need you I can’t get to heaven on my own I need you to help me I need you to be my savior a few years ago an international research group set out to determine just exactly what the average kid thought about Christmas it should surprise
nobody to hear that their survey found exactly 0% of kids hate Christmas only 1% said they only enjoyed a little and the other 99% really really like the holiday the survey found that the thing the kids love the most about Christmas isn’t the presents what they really like is not having to go to school presents came in second followed by spending time with the family decorating the house and eating all that candy I’ve been amazed uh over the years to realize how focused on children Christmas is for all of our families for
our churches Christmas is in many ways a child’s holiday and I have spent more than a few moments just thinking about it from the scripture Isaiah 9:6 says For unto us a child is born if you were God would you have had as your purpose to invade Humanity that way I think I would have just inent Christ as a full-grown mature adult who could show up one day and become known as the Son of God and get on with it but the Bible says that our father Father in Heaven chose to send the Lord of lords and King of Kings into this world
