For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. (Isaiah 9:6, KJV)

How gentle the coming! Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child? We should have conceived something sensational, phenomenal, catastrophic, appalling! The most awful of the natural elements would have formed His retinue, and men would be chilled and frozen with fear. But He came as a little child. The great God “emptied Himself.” He let in the light as our eyes were able to bear it. — John Henry Jowett