The December mindshift

Tom Harper Dec. 9, 2024

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Have you been running so fast that you didn't see the end of the year coming?

One of the things I like about Christmas is it forces me to slow down. My eyes resist focusing on the screens and people and tasks in front of me, and my gaze is instead drawn to the life Jesus lived as a person, just like us.

As Christians, this time of year wakes us up to the stark reality that Jesus really was a person with lungs and feet. And heartbreak and stress.

He became one of us to bring us closer to him. Because of his human birth, we can't tell him, "You don't know what it's like to live among these people!"

He experienced every human emotion. He was tempted like we are. He was well-acquainted with grief. He was rejected, tortured and murdered by evil men.

As you ponder the Son's life and death, would you join me in praising him for becoming helpless?

He didn't pop into the world as the joyful, bearded Savior we see depicted in storybook illustrations, but rather he chose to come to us the hard way—through a mother's pain, into the cold, hard world. Just like us.

As a person he felt pain, hunger, loneliness, sin and death. Just like us.

And as our Savior, he joyfully conquered them all.

Praising him,

Tom Harper
Founder, BiblicalLeadership.com
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Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group, a business-to-business publisher and event producer. He has written five books, including Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership (DeepWater Books, 2019) as well as the Christian business fable Through Colored Glasses and its sequel Inner Threat (DeepWater, 2022). Learn More »

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