It seems if you blink, you miss it. So I tried not to blink....but I still missed it.
Missed what ? The simplicity and truth of Christmas. Christ comes to earth. Is born in the middle of nowhere. Is missed by most of the population of the world at that time. News of his birth is not tranmitted by CNN or BBC or using RSS feeds or on a web site or findable by google search.
Why didn't God send Christ into history today when we have the technology to spread the word faster, better, cheaper? Dear Lord, what were you thinking? Wouldn't your message be better aided by this technology that allows us to transmit data around the world in seconds? Why send your Son into a stable in the middle of nowehere with no cell phone, no internet, no platform to spread His Word?
Perhaps God knew something we don't. In fact, I am sure He does. Jesus was not a dot com. Not a flash in the pan. Not the latest fad, the coolest dude, the one we all want to see in People magazine. He was, and is, simply and not so simply the Redeemer. The King. God the Son. He was sent to us as one of us, dropped into an age of simplicity where people, flesh, words, and deeds mattered more than the intermediating technologies through which we today interact with each other.
Is it possible that his message needed that context to take hold....perhaps our age of technology is now an age of irony and inconsequence and transitory technologies that distract and amuse us? Much ado about nothing, yet consuming so much of our time.
Or perhaps God's decision as to when to send Christ has absolutely nothing to do with the technology and capability of the epoch into which he was born, but everything to do with something we know nothing about yet. My head aches just thinking about it. But my heart sings.
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