Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Luke 2:11, 12
"We cannot understand how Christ became a little, helpless babe.
*He could have come to earth in such beauty that He would have been unlike the sons of men.
*He could have come in such a way as to charm those who looked upon Him, but this was not the way that God planned He should come among the sons of men.
*His features were to be like those of other human beings and He was not to have such beauty of person as to make people point Him out as different from others.
*He was to come as one of the human family, and to stand as a man before heaven and earth.
He had come to take man's place, to pledge Himself in man's behalf, to pay the debt that sinners owed.
Men first beheld Christ as a babe, as a child. His parents were very poor, and He had nothing in this earth save that which the poor
have. He passed through all the trials that the poor and lowly pass through from babyhood to childhood, from youth to manhood. . . .
The more we think about Christ's becoming a babe here on earth, the more wonderful it appears. How can it be that the helpless babe in Bethlehem's manger is still the divine Son of God? Though
Though higher than any of the angels, though as great as the Father on the throne of heaven, He became one with us.
Luke 2:11, 12
"We cannot understand how Christ became a little, helpless babe.
*He could have come to earth in such beauty that He would have been unlike the sons of men.
*He could have come in such a way as to charm those who looked upon Him, but this was not the way that God planned He should come among the sons of men.
*His features were to be like those of other human beings and He was not to have such beauty of person as to make people point Him out as different from others.
*He was to come as one of the human family, and to stand as a man before heaven and earth.
He had come to take man's place, to pledge Himself in man's behalf, to pay the debt that sinners owed.
Men first beheld Christ as a babe, as a child. His parents were very poor, and He had nothing in this earth save that which the poor
The more we think about Christ's becoming a babe here on earth, the more wonderful it appears. How can it be that the helpless babe in Bethlehem's manger is still the divine Son of God? Though
Though higher than any of the angels, though as great as the Father on the throne of heaven, He became one with us.
Looking upon Christ in the flesh,
we look upon God in humanity."
That I May Know Him p.26 E.G.W.