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Advent Devotional - December 9, 2016

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“Who would have dreamed or ever foreseen / That we could hold God in our hands? / The Giver of Life is born in the night / Revealing God’s glorious plan / To save the world”

-Who Would Have Dreamed

(This is a new song for us at CFC this year. But it is filled with profound and beautifully written lyrics.)

It almost sounds blasphemous at first. How can a human being presume that God could be confined to the point of being held in our hands? This is the One who holds the oceans in his hands (Isaiah 40:12). This is the One who knows stars by name and whose fingers put them in place (Isaiah 40:26). If our theology is remotely correct, then how could we have the audacity to presume to hold this God in our hands? Heaven and earth cannot contain him (1 Kings 8:27), so how could our hands? It almost sounds like God-belittling heresy.

And it probably would be heresy if any human being could have dreamed up such a scenario. But that is precisely the point. We could have never dreamed this; we could have never foreseen this. Instead, God himself dreamed it and planned it from time eternal, so that he might save the world. God himself would come to us in the most surprising of ways–as an absolutely dependent, infant child. And in this way, God came as one defenseless in order to gently break through all of our defenses, that we might know the extent of his love for us.

How could human beings hold the One who holds the universe? It’s inconceivable, unless God himself conceived it. And that’s precisely what he did. One night some two thousand years ago, a young Galilean virgin girl welcomed God in the flesh into her hands and into the world. All young mothers’ have their hands full. But in this case, this young mother’s hands were filled with God himself. Who could have dreamed?