Stepping Out of Eternity

A couple weeks ago Patrick and I watched a Stephen Hawking video on his ideas about how the universe formed.  He, of course, doesn't believe that God is the creator of the universe, and actually never did answer the question of where things come from in the first place, but that's another story.  What I appreciated about the video was getting a slightly better view of the enormity of our universe.  The more you zoom out from our tiny planet the more you can appreciate the creative hand of God.

What with it being Christmastime and all, I've been thinking more and more about how incredible it is that God himself chose to leave his throne in Heaven and come to Earth.  God left the glory of the world to become a helpless infant.  An infant who would one day grow up to become the ultimate sacrifice in order to bring his people back into a relationship with himself.  It's an incredible story really, and I never cease to be amazed at how much God must love us in order to go to such lengths to save us.

Second Corinthians 5:21 says, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God."  That kind of love is incredible and completely undeserved.  I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that God, the creator of the universe, came in the form of a man.  It's almost too much to imagine that a human body could even contain the glory of God.

I hope during this Christmas season you will take the time to contemplate God's love for you.  It truly is the greatest gift of all!