Christmas Eve is the crescendo of the Story of God. The driving passion of his heart from the very beginning of the bible up until now, is to have a close personal relationship us. He wants to be with us. He wants to dwell among us. If you search the scriptures, you will see God compassionately and continually trying to break into the disinterested hearts of sinful people.  

He doesn’t give up on us. He just keeps chasing, he keeps pursuing and he keeps arranging circumstances, events, and people in our lives that keep pointing us back to his love. There is nothing he wants more than a close relationship with you. 

That’s the very reason why there is a Christmas. He couldn’t stand the distance. He had to get close. He was not going to let the distance in our relationship with him be his fault. He was going to do everything in his power to be near to give us every chance to now. So the God of the universe left the splendor of heaven, robed himself in human frailty and broke into our world as a baby in a manger 2000 years ago, so that he might rescue us. He put himself in our condition so that he might identify with us.