small enough…BIG ENOUGH
Each year it seems like Christmas comes rushing at us like the Polar Express. Before we were ever able to focus on its true meaning and significance…its gone and we are off to another year. In an effort to guard my own heart from the ‘white noise of what doesn’t matter’ I have started meditate and journal some thoughts centered on the birth of Jesus. One of the obvious favorites is Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
The first part of that text is especially beautiful in its description of the incarnation. A Child is born speaks to the idea that he was small enough to be wrapped in sinless humanity. Yet, A Son is given speaks to the idea that He was big enough to still be perfect deity. Jesus is deity wrapped in humanity…small enough and big enough all at the same time. The following are my thoughts after meditating on the smallness and bigness of Jesus. He was:
small enough to be born into the world
BIG enough to have spoken that world and everything in it into existence
small enough to be born into the “City of Bread”
BIG enough to be the “Bread of Life”
small enough to cry when he was hungry and wanted to be held
BIG enough to hear the heart cry of every human being
small enough to be obsolete
BIG enough to be absolute
small enough to be born in to a young family
BIG enough to welcome all who would come into His family
small enough to reveal Himself to shepherds close by
BIG enough to draw Magi from afar
small enough to wash feet
BIG enough to lead
small enough for our sake to become poor
BIG enough that through His poverty we might become rich
small enough to need swaddling cloths
BIG enough to one day leave them behind
small enough to become one of us
BIG enough to rescue all of us
small enough to be the kid in the cradle
BIG enough to be the King on the cross
By Brent Crowe (Follow on Twitter)
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