The baby we celebrate at Christmas entered the world like other children -- through the labor and delivery of His mother. Yet, that newborn -- while dependent on His mother to feed Him and His mother and adoptive father to nurture and otherwise care for Him -- was unlike any other.The New Testament points to one of these miraculous distinctions in these verses:
"[A]ll things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together" (Col. 1:16b-17).
He "upholds all things by the word of His power" (Heb. 1:3b).
While we consider Jesus' infancy, may we not forget He is the One who brought the universe into existence and continued -- and continues -- to hold it all together. He makes the world a "cosmos" instead of a chaos. God the Son is the creator of those who cared for Him in His infancy and childhood.
We should never lose sight of who the Christmas Child is. In this season in which we think of a baby, may we dwell on and contemplate this One's sovereign power as Creator and Sustainer of His creation.
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