Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Would You be the Frog Princess?

What if the story of the Frog Prince was reversed? Instead of the Frog Prince becoming human, the kiss would make the princess turn into a frog. If you were the princess, would you be a frog for the love of the Frog Prince?

Would you leave the glory of your humanity and become a slimy frog?

Would you give up everything for the sake of Love?

Christmas is all about Love. It is the greatest love story ever told. It is a story far stranger than fiction, because it is REAL.

If you becoming a frog for the sake of love is just too much sacrifice, then God becoming man is far more unimaginable. If the distance between man and frog is so far, the distance between God and man is infinite! Yet the unimaginable became reality. The Unreachable stooped down so we can touch Him.

For the love of us, the Almighty God wrapped himself in swaddling clothes, signifying our weak humanity. The infinite became temporal. The untouchable was made flesh. He did it all for the sake of love.

God so loved us He became one of us. We never really think about how uncomfortable it was for God to be limited in our frail humanity. God the creator of everything became hungry, got tired, and wept, suffered and eventually murdered. God lived every human experience, though He DID NOT NEED TO for He is above all of his creation.

Christmas has been so commercialized and domesticated that the Christmas story has become bland and boring. We have failed to see the craziness of the story.

Yes, God is madly in love with you and me that he did the unthinkable. He became one of us.


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