“Infant Holy, Infant Lowly.” What a simple and yet profound fact that is! Charles Spurgeon said that here at Christmas-time we try to grasp the enormity of the beauty and mystery and marvel of that statement. His words are so direct and almost stunning when he writes that “the infinite has become an infant.” We can read the scriptures and describe the history and articulate the doctrines surrounding the incarnation. But we have not adequately embraced all of this until we bow in amazed adoration of the God who became man.
The Apostle Paul has set this before us in Philippians 2 where he wrote of the humiliation and exaltation of Christ. The humiliation was not just in Jesus’ death and burial. It was also in His becoming a man, or more astonishing, a baby. Someone has said that thousands of babies have become kings, but only once has a king become a baby! In one of the Narnia stories, “The Last Battle,” C. S. Lewis wrote of this in these marvelous words as Lucy gazed at a stable.
“Yes,” said the Lord Digory, “Its inside is bigger than its outside.” “Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.