"which surpasses all understanding" (Philippians 4:7)

​What's happening?!  I'm quite sure we all have said similar words, when something happened that we didn't understand.  Maybe it was going so fast we couldn't see who or what it was.  Or maybe it was something we've never seen before.  Or maybe it's just so much happening all at once that our brains just freeze, like deer in the headlights of a vehicle on the highway.

I often feel that way around this time of the year.  So much is happening, and often all at once.
So let's pause for a few moments, take a few deep breaths.  Pray.  Listen.  

And let's focus on the one thing that is REALLY important:  the moment when God became human.  We call it the Incarnation.  As John 1 describes this event, "The Word was God...And the Word became flesh and lived among us."

But I'm not going to even try to explain it.  Oh, there are books written about the Incarnation and its meaning to humanity.  

But maybe the words of Philippians 4, just before the words at the top of this devotion, says it best, "the peace of God which surpasses all understanding".  There.  That is what is happening at Christmas.  The God of love has chosen to come into this world as a Man and He brings peace.  Peace to all.  Peace in the midst of whatever else is happening in your life.  Eternal peace, through faith in Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord of all.

May you be filled with this peace, and be able to spend moments and days in awe and worship of the God who so loves you and me that He would become an infant.  Our Savior.  Our Lord.  Now and forever.

In God's peace,

Pastor Steve