God's Word at Christmas
Only God's Word can tell us that this child is the incarnate Word of God. Thus the feast of the incarnation has very little to offer us apart from a careful and thoughtful study of God's telling of the story itself. There is no knowing the incarnate Word apart from His written Word. Yet the story is full of deep mysteries; not the least of which is that God has exchanged His own blessed Son for poor sinners like us. How could God have so treasure the likes of us that He was willing to exchange his own dearest treasure? Think, then, how remarkable the exchange is! How exalted we have become through Christ and through faith in Him! Our ordinary birth becomes His and His exalted birth becomes ours through the rebirth of the font. Everything is made new by the birth of this one Child.