Amid a season crowded with lights, music, feasting, and gift-giving, this message calls the church back to what Christmas is actually for: not any other figure, but the birth of Christ, God incarnate, one person who is fully God and fully man. John states it plainly – the Word became flesh and dwelt among us – and the sign of that coming was given long before, a sign as deep as Sheol and as high as heaven.
Paul explains the purpose behind that grace: though Christ was rich, for our sake he became poor, so that through his poverty we might become rich, and through his death we who were once God’s enemies are reconciled to him, much more, saved by his life. As one year ends and another begins, that is the good news the church carries forward: God is with us.