What is the question that the famous Christmas carol asks…what child is this?
Today’s Gospel passage is John’s resounding answer…in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus would have been known, by His contemporaries, as many things… son of Mary, son of the carpenter, the kid who got left behind in the temple…type thing.
But beyond all that…what child is this?... This child is God!
Today’s celebration reminds us of this, of course, and goes even further to speak of our participation in this mystery.
Who are you? Who am I?
Well, we are all sorts of things: sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, teachers, lawyers, vaccinated and unvaccinated…all sorts of titles, relations or categories that we fall under.
But who are we at the center of our being?
In Jesus’ birth we see revealed the miraculous mystery that, in Him and His humanity… I am a Son, I am a Daughter of the Most High God. There is no more important identity than that.
Rejoice today, brothers and sisters, that in Jesus we have been adopted into the family of God.
Praise God and have a Merry Christmas!
Fr. Brandon Ware