Luke 2:7 ...and she brought forth her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room at the Inn.
On Christmas we celebrate the day the promised Savior would come to earth. The angel had announced His coming to Joseph and Mary. And so the time came, on a silent night, in an animal stable, was born Emmanuel, God with us. The Light of the World entered our darkness. Royalty met humanity. The Sinless One met the sinful ones. The Hope of the World met the hopeless. 'The Way' met the lost.
The precious infant was wrapped and then placed, not on a velvet throne, nor in a golden cradle as He deserved, but in a manger, an animal's food box, by Mary and Joseph, a carpenter. Our Redeemer, laid on a bed of wood and nails.
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Years later, at Calvary, He lay again on a bed of wood and nails, a cross. Planted in the ground and reaching toward the sky. He was hung by nails, bridging the gap between heaven and earth. A wooden altar on which the sacrifice for sins, mine and yours, was laid. God's wrath at our sin was poured out, not on us, the guilty, but on the Innocent One. Our sin is punished; our penalty paid; justice is served and now God can pardon all who seek forgiveness.
The Creator has come amid the humblest of surroundings and done the miraculous with the simple. A couple of pieces of wood and some nails would make our Savior's cradle and later His cross. One into which He was delivered and the other upon which He delivered us. What a priceless gift we celebrate.
