A Christmas Meditation…
Guest Author December 20th, 2009
Before the angel Gabriel made his stupendous announcement to a virgin maiden in the town of Nazareth, there were farewells to be said in heaven. The angels understood that their glorious Lord, the light of their life, was going on a long journey to another planet, and would be absent from them for more than thirty four earth years. The first nine months the Sun of Righteousness, their Lord, would be eclipsed completely in a human mother’s womb. Only His Father would see him there and miss the fellowship of His Son. And they knew that the end of His sojourn on that planet was shrouded in terrible happenings. But their Lord would be coming back, mission accomplished, having bought back from the enemy a vast family with His life blood, to join Him in heaven later. And they marveled that their Lord deemed it all worth while. 
We know He did, for Hebrews 2:10-13 tells us that He did it with joy for His beloved brethren!
The Lord Jesus, standing on the portico of heaven, takes off His kingly purple robe.
His gaze is directed to the small globe of the earth far below Him. The Bible says that
“the fulness of Time had come,” (Gal. 4:4) I imagine the Father says to Him, “My Son, it is time to leave me and go down to the world we love. You will be despised and rejected by the people you go to save. You will be a Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Only thru the door of death can you return to me. Are you willing?” And His Son replies simply,
“Lo, I go to do thy will, O God. A body hast thou prepared for me.” With these words, the Lord of glory emptied Himself of His outward glories and privileges of deity. He began to grow smaller and smaller and smaller…until He became that holy Seed which the Spirit of God took to earth to implant in the womb of Mary. “And the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore that holy Child that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)
And Mary gave Him the name Jesus because He would save His people from their sins.
And her cousin Elizabeth rejoiced greatly, saying, “Through the tender mercy of our God the Dayspring from on High has visited us, to give Light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of Peace.” (Luke 1:78-79.)
Erica Koehler 12/20/09