Same God

What are you feeling as you come to the end of 2024? Joy? Hope? Fear? Loneliness? Confusion? Assurance? Anger? Peace? All of these emotions are part of the human experience - impacted by both our personal circumstances and the state of our world. God understands all of these emotions because He came and shared our life. He experienced and bore the same weakness that we often feel. He came, not as a rich and powerful ruler - protected from life’s losses and dangers, but as a baby - dependent, vulnerable, needy. God came and trusted a teenage girl to take care of him. God came to show us who He truly is and who He planned for us to be. The wonder of Christmas is this incredible paradox of God With Us - not as the most powerful being in the universe but as the most helpless participant in his own creation. How? Why?