So This is Christmas.

It seems like Just the other day i was blowing out birthday candles for myself in July, and now Christmas is upon us. On this night God came to us in the form of an infant child. The Creator of the universe and the Giver of Life was born in a small little manger. Two days ago my Godson Joseph Bryan was Baptized he was born again through water and spirit and was given new life.  There is nothing more helpless than a human child. Nothing more fragile or weak than a baby. And our God the one who breathed life into you and me made himself vulnerable for us. Love is the most difficult thing to understand and yet it is spelled out in a three letter word, G-o-d.  When you are the most loving to somebody is when you are the most you. But the problem we have in this society is that vulnerability is seen as being weak. That you shouldn't be you, that you should be somebody else and if you aren't then you are an outcast. But the creator of the universe, the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, became vulnerable, fragile, and weak for us. God was more God than ever before when he came to us as Jesus Christ the living, breathing word of God. A fragile child laying in a manger saved the world from eternal condemnation and showed us what Christmas really means. It is about Love. Take everything out, take out the gifts, take out the music, take out the tree, the lights and the hot chocolate, then look at what is left. A small, tiny infant child who's very name causes Angels to sing praises and the hosts of heaven to bow down.

In today's culture and society it is easy to get bogged down by all of the negativity in the world. It is easy to get tied up in all the latest trends and technology. It is easy to let others put you down and make you feel un-loved. But when you are on the verge of despair. When you feel like there is nobody out there. Stop and think about that small child who was born because he wanted to make himself open to you.