Alpha and Omega at Christmas

The Alpha and Omega – Comes as a Baby to Bethlehem

Happy Birthday Jesus! Thank You for coming in the form of a human to bring salvation to me.

I wonder if we have become somewhat desensitized to the story of the birth of Jesus.

Jesus. Yes Jesus came as a baby to save us from our sins. That is the wonderful message of Christmas. He had to come so that He could die for us.

We form the scene of the birth of Jesus in our minds. Perhaps we see a barn with a wooden manger in it. Perhaps a cave. A man and woman holding a newborn infant. We usually imagine cows or sheep on the perimeter – with shepherds, and perhaps the wise men bowing before them.

Now think of that Baby as the Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End.

Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, came as a human infant to a little village in Israel. The King of the Universe took on human flesh and became the child of a simple man and woman. From the glories of heaven, He gave His life over to their care – without control, totally dependent on human parents. He came, knowing what had gone on before, from the foundations of time, and knew how it would all end…the Alpha and the Omega.

With those thoughts in mind, Jesus as the Alpha and Omega, does the story of the birth of Jesus take on any new meaning to you? Does it cause you to look at Christmas, and we way we celebrate at church, at home, in our hearts, in a different way?

We can never really understand what the God of the Universe experienced as He became a human infant, but lets open our minds eye to a little fantasy.

Imagine standing in the bright summer sunshine and looking down at an ant hill. We tower over the little mound of dirt and watch the ants scurry in and out of the brown cone of dirt. We have knowledge and technology, they have none. They are humans and they are dirty little creatures. I wonder if that is somehow how God looks down at our lives.

What if you decided to change into the form of an ant and become one of them, live like them, speak with them, and try to tell them about human life. Does that stretch your imagination? Does the thought of taking on their form and lifestyle disgust you? To give up your warm and safe home, car, job, loved ones - to live as an ant for years.

Jesus is God, and God is perfect, so He did this all out of love for us….to give His life in exchange for the chance for us to spend eternity with Him. The Alpha and the Omega taking on the form of a human baby –coming for our good, not for His. The Alpha and Omega giving up the throne of Heaven, and constant worship of the angels, to come to earth for our good. What a thought!