The
Image of Bethlehem
The soloist on the stage at church that Christmas
many years ago was singing the beautiful song “Mary Did You Know”. I looked
over to my left across the aisle and saw a young mother with a smile on her
face and tears running down her cheeks cradling her new born child. The image
of Bethlehem came alive right before my eyes.
“…the time
came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.
She
wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger…Luke
2:6-7”
Did Mary know her baby had come to save all sons
and daughters? That He would give sight to the blind, walk on water and calm a
storm with the wave of His hand? Could she even grasp that this small babe she
adored was the face of God, the great I AM?
God trusted a peasant girl and a poor carpenter
with His greatest gift to the world in a way we are able to understand and relate.
Majesty cradled in the arms of a simple, humble woman. Holiness among the filth
in a stable. Not wrapped in royal robes but in rags of swaddling clothes.
God chose
the simple and the humble to be the first witnesses to His presence on earth.
He sent angels to waken sleepy shepherds in the fields to run and worship the
Messiah born in a stable.
We can still see mothers today holding their
babies close to them and remember all that God has done for us. And those who
seek Him, though humble and poor in spirit, discover they are now the child
being cradled in the loving arms of God.
“God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby
in His arms.” Paul Scherer
“The Image of Bethlehem” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every
Morning Ministries© December 23, 2013
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