If Advent’s about anticipation, what was that first Advent like for Jesus?
I look at the helpless baby in the manger and wonder what it was like as He waited. Because He wasn’t always a baby.
Time had never been an issue, but now there was this moment in time when everything would change. He would somehow empty Himself and enter His creation, become one of the created.
Did He anticipate that moment?
He’s God, so it’s tempting to brush it off and assume it was easy for Him. But Paul says it was a big deal.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:5-8)
What was it like to know what was coming–not just the cross, but the helplessness, the dependency, the limitation? It’s hard to think about, because as a baby He couldn’t know, but as God He did, and somehow that all fits together.
We’re a self-centered bunch. For us, Advent’s about what we await.
I look at that baby and realize He waited, too.
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