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Advent Devotional - December 8, 2014

“Come and behold Him, born the King of angels”

-O Come Let Us Adore Him

Come and behold Him! What a glorious, knee-bending invitation! Since the Fall of man in the garden, such a prospect had been rendered impossible for our sin-ravaged race. How could man, saturated with hellbent rebellion, come and behold Him? He is the holy God of all creation, and even upon the genuine request of Moses to see His glory in Exodus 33, did the Lord speak thus in response: “You cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” For every generation from Adam to Joseph, only the rarest of glimpses, mere manifestations of Him, had been possible.

Man proved in every instance that he could never become holy like God; but God, in His holiness, came to us “in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7). The coming of Jesus Christ, in such shocking vulnerability, is the greatest paradox the world has ever known. For an infant, dependent upon His earthly mother and father for all His physical needs, was yet crowned with authority over all the might of Heaven. As the Son of God (Hebrews 1:5), the hosts of angels bow before Him in the manger (1:6), and each one is eager and ready to answer His every call (1:7-14). After all, the angels know the Father, to whom belongs all glory and honor, and this child bears His name (1:4).

“O come, all ye faithful”–behold Him! In the manger lies the great fulfillment of God's promises to His people. The great mystery of God's covenants, hidden for ages and generations (Colossians 1:26), is revealed at last in this perfect child, the King of angels, lying in a feeding trough. Behold Him! Behold the perfect Lamb, sent to save us.