The Stairs

I came across the following in my studies this week. I thought you would like it.

Oh, long and dark the stairs I trod,
With stumbling feet to find my God:

Gaining a foothold bit by bit,

Then slipping back and losing it:

Never progressing, striving still

With weakening grasp and fainting will,

Bleeding to climb to God: while He

Serenely smiled, unnoting me.

Then came a certain time when I

Loosened by hold and fell thereby.

Down to the lowest step my fall,

As if I had not climbed at all.

And while I lay despairing there,

I heard a footfall on the stair,

In the same path where I, dismayed,

Faltered and fell and lay afraid.

And lo! When hope had ceased to be,

My God came down the stairs to me.

- Theodosia Garrison

Has hope ceased to be for you? Then in your despair listen - He is coming down the stairs to you.

Isn't that ultimately the message of Christmas? 



Matthew 1:23 (KJV)
²³ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Emmanuel, "God came down the stairs" to be with us. 

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Pastor Mike