It’s Christmas Eve and it’s about time we get into the Christmas spirit.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be celebrating Mass tonight as we celebrate the birth of Jesus. It’s never meant more to me than it does now, realizing just how profound it is that God loves us – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Because of God’s tremendous love for us and desire to repair His relationship with us – that WE destroyed through distrust and sin back in the garden – God left perfection and came into corruption, becoming part of His very own creation. He wore the flesh He gave us. He suffered the pain that we suffer – pain that only exists because of our sin – and it troubled Him greatly to know the suffering He would have to endure.
Yet as Philippians reminds us, Jesus NEVER considered equality with God something to be exploited. He never yielded to the temptation to use His power to free Himself of our burden.
Rather, Christ’s love for us compelled Him to reunite His lost children with Himself, no matter how much suffering and pain it meant. And as we all know, that He did – even to death on a cross.
Tonight that is what we celebrate. A Holy God becomes flesh. Despair becomes Hope. The only True Love in the universe becomes small, so that one day He can be with His bride forever and ever.
I bid you all a very Christ-filled Merry Christmas, and leave you with this amazing rendition of O come, O come, Emmanuel.