Luke 2:7

God is approachable 
precisely because He became relatable. 

The foreign and alien—
The far off—

Coming near—
making Himself known. 

Who fears to approach 
A baby?

In a manger.
Resting in a barn.

Where men might fear to tread
in palaces and thrones—

None fear the familiar 
of a humble barn

with its animal stink
and scent of fresh hay.

In this way, 
He became relatable.

He became 
like us.  

He knows us.
He has lived as we do.

He has experienced life.
And death.

He became approachable. 
The inaccessible—accessible.

The divine and eternal—
intimate and near.

This noncomprehending flesh—
invited to wonder at heaven’s finest. 

The One who should not 
have been able to sympathize—

Condescending into temporal,
so that we would know the eternal.

In order that we would be known
by the Creator’s creative hand,

He took on His own
fashioned flesh.

So that He would best know—
Experientially know—

what it means 
to be human—

In order that He would 
be relatable—

And
relating—

He confined Himself
to a man’s flesh.

Why?
Why would He do thus?

Because—
And this is a monumental because

Because He wanted
to give Himself away—

The greatest treasure
In all time and existence.

 In the abundance 
of His love,

He desired to serve—
To give another the best there was to give.

He sought to bless,
to the highest degree—

for the highest good
Of another.

This is what love,
true love, always does.

And since He is 
that highest good,

He gave Himself—
All of Himself.

Desiring to be known,
He gave wholly.

He came
in the most approachable way—

Removing fear—
Giving the peace of Himself—

Knowing—
and being known.

He is now—
And forevermore—

Approachable 
and near.

This is our God
This is He.