Merry Christmas everyone. This is a message about Christmas and it's written by a

mystery writer. So without googling, can you guess who wrote it? Our mystery writer starts with a quote from John's

gospel. And the word was made flesh and came to dwell among us. And we had sight of his glory. Glory such as belongs to the Father's only begotten Son, full of

grace and truth. That's John 1, verse 14. Bethlehem became the link between heaven and

earth. God and man met here and looked each other in the face.

In the taking of human flesh the father prepared it, the spirit formed it, and the son assumed it.

He who had an eternal generation in the bosom of the father, now had a temporal generation in time.

He who had his birth in Bethlehem came to be born in the hearts of men.

For what would it profit if he was born a thousand

times in Bethlehem unless he was born again in man? Now, man need not hide from God, as Adam

did. For he can be seen through Christ's human nature.

Christ did not gain one perfection more by becoming man, nor did he lose anything of what he possessed as God. There was the almightyness of God in the movement of his arm,

the infinite love of God and the beatings of his human heart and the unmeasured compassion of God

to sinners in his eyes.

God is now manifest in the flesh.

This is what is called the incarnation.

The whole range of the divine attributes of power and goodness, justice, love, beauty were in him.

And when our divine Lord acted and spoke,

God in his perfect nature became manifest to those

who saw him and heard him and touched him.

As he told Philip later on, whoever has seen me has seen the

father, John 14 verse 9. No man can love anything unless he can get his arms

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