1 of 7 · It begins in the dark.
He came for you
There was no room. God did not wait for a better world, or a cleaner people, or for you to be ready. He came as a child you could have held — flesh, night, straw, a mother who had said yes.
This is how close he is willing to come. Not as an idea. As a body. The Word became flesh and lived among us, and he came for you.
Lk 2:6-7
Luke 2:6–7
6While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth.
7She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
“On your account then am I weak, in you am I strong. On your account am I poor, in you am I rich. Consider not what you see, but acknowledge that you are redeemed. I owe more, O Lord Jesus, to Your sufferings that I am redeemed, than to Your works that I am created. It were no advantage to be born, had it not advantaged me to be redeemed also.”