What would it have been like this night so long ago? A line from the famous carol snuck into me this year and got my attention:
Christ by highest heav'n adored
Christ the everlasting Lord!
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
-- Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
The Highest of Heaven was pleased to dwell with us! Besides the notion of this being a bit unfathomable, what is it that would make God want to 'live with us'? ...but, He does. If we understood the ramifications of this, our response would be much like that of the angels because:
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
-- Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem
