The Apostle John said of Jesus, “So the Word became human and made His home among us.” God sent His word and a person came with it. He moved into the neighborhood and made a home with us! In the original Greek, it says He put up a tent with us. And to everyone familiar with the history of God’s people, that phrasing would remind them of how God went with His people through the wilderness, making a home with them in the tabernacle, leading them to the promise land. It’s a big idea. When Jesus arrived at Christmas, it was God making a home with us in our every human experience: weakness, irritation, isolation, humiliation, even death. Religion is advice for good living. That’s not Christianity. In Christ, God doesn’t throw advice at us from a distance. Christmas is God journeying with us in every wilderness experience, guiding us, sustaining us, and making sure we arrive at His good purposes for us.

John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”