Summary: Have you ever heard the Christmas song, "Winter Snow"? It says this of the very first Christmas: "Could've come like a mighty storm, With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire, with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow. Quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night, to the earth below." The Jewish people had been waiting for years for their Messiah. They were waiting to be delivered by a mighty King. It's no surprise that a tiny baby born in a barn to a poor family was not what they had in mind. St. Paul writes in Philippians, "Christ Jesus, who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross." Jesus really did come quietly, like winter snow. He entered into human history in all humility. This is our King! And through his humility and obedience He rescued the world. That is a King worth following. This is Good News worth sharing!
