Silent Night

"Everything was ready. The moment God had been waiting for was here at last! God was coming to help His people, just as He had promised in the beginning.

But how would He come? What would He be like? What would He do?

Mountains would have bowed down. Seas would have roared.Trees would have clapped thier hands. But the earth held its breath. As silant as snow falling, He came in. And when no one was looking, in the darkness, He came."

-The Jesus Story Book Bible

By: Sally Lloyd-Jones
From The Nativity, Luke 1-2If you've never read or heard any of the "Jesus Story Book Bible", I hope after reading the above you choose to read more. Yes it is a children's story book bible, and that's what I use it for on many occasions when counseling during my summers, but it has definitely changed the way I think about the  Bible, and especially the Christmas Nativity.

The way Sally Lloyd-Jones writes in this book, takes the unfathomable birth of Jesus and His miracles and transforms them into breath taking, yet understandable stories. It captures the awe you felt as a young child when something AMAZING just happened before your eyes and you are the only one who knows it. You keep it inside you like locked treasure, and you pull the memory back out with the greatest ease at any moment in time, still remembering every detail, still feeling everything just as if it were the first time you were experiencing it.

I hope, as christmas comes in just hours now, that you take the story of Jesus' birth and not think of it as the christmas story you know all to well, and could recite every word of every verse and sing blindfolded, every christmas carol and hymn. But that you remember just how great God is, that He, who created planets, and orchestrates every wave and blow of the wind, who wakes us every morning and brings us to rest and sleep at night, how BIG  He really is. Instead of coming to earth with thunder and lightning, as a giant and destroying all sin, "He was making Himself small. And coming down...as a baby."
"But this child was a new kind of king. Though He was the Prince of Heaven, He had become poor. Though He was the Mighty God, He had become a helpless baby. This king hadn't come to be the boss. He had come to be a servant."

Blessings