Topics:<\/b> Advent; Christmas; Humility; Incarnation<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Isaiah 40:1\u201311; Philippians 2:5\u201311<\/p>\n
In London, looking toward the auditorium\u2019s royal box where the queen and her family sat, I caught glimpses of the way rulers stride through the world: with bodyguards, a trumpet fanfare, and a flourish of bright clothes and flashing jewelry.<\/p>\n
Queen Elizabeth II had recently visited the United States, and reporters delighted in spelling out the logistics involved: her four thousand pounds of luggage included two outfits for every occasion, a mourning outfit in case someone died, forty pints of plasma, and white kid-leather toilet seat covers. She brought along her own hairdresser, two valets, and a host of other attendants. A brief visit of royalty to a foreign country can easily cost $20 million.<\/p>\n
By contrast, God\u2019s visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn King but a feed trough. Indeed, the event that divided history, and even our calendars, into two parts may have had more animal than human witnesses. A mule could have stepped on him.<\/p>\n
\u2014Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew<\/i> (Zondervan, 1995)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Advent; Christmas; Humility; Incarnation References: Isaiah 40:1\u201311; Philippians 2:5\u201311 In London, looking toward the auditorium\u2019s royal box where the queen and her family sat, I caught glimpses of the way rulers stride through the world: with bodyguards, a trumpet fanfare, and a flourish of bright clothes and flashing jewelry. Queen Elizabeth II had recently … Continue reading “PRICING
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