Emphasis Preaching Journal

"But when the time had fully come, God sent his son, born of a woman...." God does not appear as we expect him to. He does not enter our world in the blaring, shallow voices of the loud and obnoxious. God comes as a child. What does God look like? We might have expected to see him sitting among the powerful, televised and good-looking. We might expect to see God in abundance, among the wealthy, the pampered. But instead God comes to us in simple ways. He comes to us as bread and wine. "So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son God has made you also an heir" (v. 7).