God Came Down
I love listening to Christmas music for the entire month of December. One of my favourite songs has a line that says, “…and God came down at Christmastime.” It’s so easy to forget God – the God who spoke the heavens and the earth into being - came down as a helpless baby, dependent on the hands of humans He created. It begs the question, why would God come to earth as a baby? Or even more basic, is it true? I heard a story recently about a man who had the same question. His wife was a Christ follower, but her husband couldn’t believe the story about God, Jesus and the resurrection. It was Christmastime and his wife was going to church on Christmas Eve. She invited her husband but he declined, saying he would feel like a hypocrite if he went to church because he didn’t believe the story. So the husband found himself alone in the house. He heard a loud bang outside his living room window and he discovered two birds had flown into the window. He wen