Fear Not

More from Philip Yancey's book-"Disappointment With God."

"What could be less scary than a newborn baby with jerky limbs and eyes that do not quite focus? In Jesus, born in a barn or a cave and laid in a feeding trough, God found at last a mode of approach that humanity need not fear. The king had cast off his robes...."

... "Kenosis" is the technical word theologians use to describe Christ emptying himself of the advantages of deity. Ironically, while the emptying involved much humiliation, it also involved a kind of freedom. I have spoken of the "disadvantages" of infinity. A physical body freed Christ to act on a human scale, without those "disadvantages." He could say what he wanted without his voice blasting the treetops. He could express anger by calling King Herod a fox or be reaching for a bullwhip in the temple, rather than shaking the earth with his stormy presence. And he could talk to anyone-a prostitute, a blind man, a widow a leper-without first having to announce, "Fear not!""
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"'Twas much that man was made like God before,
But that God should be made like man, much more."
~~John Donne, "Holy Sonnet 15"