Luke 2:3-7
Last Sunday at church we had our annual children's Christmas pageant. ...You guessed it! This is the scene they performed, complete with angels and bleating sheep. I'm certain God never, ever gets tired of these pageants. :)
At one point during the skit, it suddenly hit me why God would allow His glorious Son to be born in a lowly manger rather than in a comfortable room in the inn. We are, so to speak, the lowly manger. He cannot come to those who are busy making themselves "worthy" of Him. He comes instead to scrubby abodes that are ill-equipped for a king. Scrubby abodes like me, for instance. I have absolutely nothing to offer Jesus but my lack of anything to offer Him. He proves this to me over and over, just in case I should ever begin to think otherwise.
Delight in your inability to make yourself worthy for the King. What He has chosen, He will prepare: first by humbling, then by restoration.
For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite. Isaiah 57:15 |