The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
As Christians, we are in constant danger of becoming desensitized to the bizarre and beautiful strangeness of our own reality. We can become so familiar with the conceptual content of Christ’s Incarnation, Passion, Death, and Resurrection that we can easily lose sight of how absolutely mind-blowingly mysterious and life-changing these revelations truly are.
The first part of John’s Gospel that we hear today tells us that “all things came to be through Him, and without Him nothing came to be.” Everything that we see, hear, touch, and encounter in every moment of every day came into being through Christ. Every atom of every cell in our bodies is intentionally held in existence by God at every moment of our lives. With every beat of our hearts and every breath that we take, the Lord sustains us existence by the power of his infinite love.
And not only does He love us so, but He came to be with us as one of us. By his Incarnation and birth at Christmas, the infinite, invisible, unknowable, incomprehensible God has made Himself finite, visible, knowable, comprehensible, and relatable to our own limited human senses. The infinite God has crossed the infinite distance between his limitlessness and our severe limits for the sole purpose of engaging in relationship with us face to face and heart to heart.