2017 Worship Guide

Page 24 2017 WORSHIP GUIDE Wednesday, December 6, 2017 LINCOLN DAILY NEWS PUBLICATION 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 CONTINUED ....