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 Now regardless of how much I love him and think
he’s amazing, he does have his limits, like the fact that he’s only
three months old. I said to him jokingly, “Hey kid, why don’t you
get up? Why don’t you come up here on my level so we can talk and
hang out together? Is this your plan . . . to just lie around all
day?” My point is that he’s just a baby and cannot “come up to my
level” and so my only option was to go down to him. I got down on
the floor and laid beside him and together we laughed and played. It
was a good moment with my grandson.
By analogy, if we can lower ourselves to a baby then surely God can
lower himself to us. Oddly enough, that’s what He did through Jesus.
He had to come down to our level because we couldn’t get up to his.
There is a song by the Gaither Vocal Band with that title, “He came
down to my level,” and it goes something like this:
He came down to my level
When I couldn't get up to His
With a strong arm He lifted me up
To show me what livin' is
He'll come down to your level
If you'll open up the door
He wants to make your life worth livin'
That's what He came down for And
sure enough, that’s what the Christmas story is really about. "The
virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him
Immanuel," which means "God with us" (Matthew 1:23). Never in a
million years would I have found God if he hadn’t come down and
found me first.
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Next time you don’t feel unique or valued, remember
this; God thought you were special enough to come down for. You are
a treasure in his eyes if in no one else’s.
Preaching Minister Ron Otto
Lincoln Christian Church
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