Jn.1:14 – And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

You can never understand what Christmas is until you have a glimpse of the greatness of the Son of God becoming a human being. To think that infinite greatness took on the form of a simple man in Galilee, being raised by a simple carpenter, is really too hard to understand. He took on a human body and lived an average life in Galilee until……He did at least until the Holy Spirit fell on Him. His humanity is why we celebrate Christmas. It’s hard to even think it, much less say it, “God became a man”. Here is how Spurgeon describes the significance of the humanity of Christ.

“A prince who puts aside his crown, and clothes himself with beggar’s rags to investigate the miseries of his country, is but a worm condescending to his fellow worm. An angel that should lay aside his beauty, and become decrepit and lame, and walk the streets in pain and poverty to bless the race of man, were nothing, for this were but a creature humbling himself to creatures a “little lower than himself; but here is the Creator taking the creature into union with himself, the Immortal becoming mortal, the Infinite an infant, the Omnipotent taking weakness, even human weakness into union with his own person. We may truly say of Jesus, that he was weak as the dust, and yet as mighty as the Eternal God; liable to suffer, and yet God over all blessed for ever. O the depth of the love of Jesus!”

It’s really impossible to overstate the blessing involved with the Lord taking on a human body. The Lord became a man once and for all. His appearing in Bethlehem as a man rocked the society to its core, and even today nothing can not be effected by the fact the Creator of all things became a man. Because of His humanity He understands what it means to be lonely or abandoned and is able to help us in a very real way every time we come before Him. He became poor that we might become rich, He took our sickness and our pain that we can experience a healthy life. This is the message of Christmas, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.