As an awestruck parent looks down upon her new child, imagining the soon and coming days of wonder and delight, so God the Father looked down from heaven, filled with the joy of what was to come in His new relationship with creation. Just as the obstructing veil would be coming down for small man, so too would God Himself now have new access to those He would call His own.
And because God lives outside of time, dwelling at once in the beginning, the end, and every milestone in between, at the moment of His birth in a village of Judea, He was already living out the exquisite joy of having drawn man to Himself through the person—the birth, the life, the death, the resurrection—of Jesus, the Christ.
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