For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. (Isaiah 9:6)
If Hollywood had scripted the coming of the Son of God into the world, I am sure it would have looked quite different than the way it actually happened. Hollywood’s version undoubtedly would have included natural disasters, wide-scale destruction, and a cheesy, predictable “love-at-first-sight” story. To be honest, that’s probably how I myself would have imagined it. After all, we’re talking about the Creator of the cosmos entering into our three-dimensional reality. One would expect volcanoes, tidal waves, mushroom clouds, and global panic. Yet the God who came did so in such a way as to almost escape attention entirely. As the late Carlo Carretto once wrote, “God is made human in Christ. God makes himself present to us with such a special presence, such an obvious presence, as to overthrow all the complicated calculations made about him in the past.”
There will come a time when the Son of God will step back into human history, and this second coming will be a cataclysmic event unlike any before, such that even Hollywood itself could never imagine. But in the interim, in this sacred, fleeting span of time between these two events, he comes to us continuously. He is ever present – simply, profoundly, personally. His being born and given to us, and his active presence now by the Holy Spirit is the great foundation of our hopes and the fountain of all our joys. He is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. He is simply everything, and he is simply enough.
If everything else in your life were suddenly stripped away and he was all you had left, would he be enough for you this Christmas season?
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