The miracle we celebrate at Christmas is the miracle we call the incarnation of Christ. For everyone who enjoys a little meat to chew on I quote one of my favorite heroes of the faith, Martin Luther. I found this quote in Gerhard O. Forde's Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, of 1518 called "On Being a Theologian of the Cross" page 14.
In the kingdom of his humanity and his flesh, in which we live by faith, he [Jesus Christ] makes us of the same form as himself and crucifies us by making us true humans instead of unhappy and proud Gods: humans, that is, in their misery and their sin. Because in Adam we mounted up towards equality with God, he [Jesus Christ] descended to be like us, to bring us back to knowledge of himself. That is the sacrement of the incarnation. That is the kingdom of faith in which the cross of Christ holds sway, which sets at naught the divinity for which we perversely strive and restores the dispised weakness of the flesh which we have perversely abandoned.
Enjoy!
Bro. John
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