How Christmas Mobilizes Your Missional Life All Year LongSýnishorn

God mobilized His missional life becoming a baby, the utmost form of weakness. What’s one of your favorite Christmas memories? Every year as a child, we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house full of cousins, aunts, uncles, and fun times. There were no white Christmases, only blue, just because Grandma always played the Elvis Christmas vinyl record on the stereo that was larger than the largest clothes chest you’ve ever seen. Every year Grandma inevitably runs out of film for the Polaroid camera (yes, I'm old, or my Grandma was a hipster). She stands next to Grandpa and yells, “Will you go to the store and get some film?” Grandpa, hard of hearing, always responds with, “What did you say?” Grandma repeats louder. Grandpa giggles and leaves and, inevitably, would ALWAYS miss the excitement of bells thumping against the porch followed by a “HO HO HO” and Santa Claus, HIMSELF came to OUR Christmas Eve! I noticed always wore shoes JUST like my Grandpa! The excitement faded as I always would look at the manger scene to the side. He was enthroned in Heaven with all praise directed toward Him with incomprehensible power that made heaven, earth, and YOU at His fingertips. Existence does not get any more comfortable than this. Yet, God mobilized His missional living by subjecting Himself to be what humans view as the weakest, a baby. Wrapped in the weakness of my Cerebral Palsy with a speech impediment using a wheelchair, this scene comforts me. This historical event gives me purpose! God became weak to start His journey to the cross, where yet He’d become weak AGAIN so we can be with us forever.: “For He was indeed crucified in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 13:4). What weaknesses do you have that He can use in your missional life to reach others?