thoughts...

He never had to die being Eternal God but He chose to take on a human body and suffer our sin and the death of that body as His cost for our freedom.  The freedom of those who had rebelled for all he stood for.  We who dead and never knew that our destiny was into the pit of hell, were made alive so that we could finally understand where we were going to be going without Him, understand He had changed our future and given us a destiny of life instead of death and gave us, most importantly, the ability to now understand His Glory and Majesty.  Without His opening our eyes and giving us life we would have none of this.

 God's Glory

Christ suffered the loss of so much glory himself in order to repair the injury done to God's glory by our sin.  In that He was received a greater degree of glory for eternity.

Christ's death showed God's love for us but we are not the center.  His Glory is!

 John Piper p.319 Desiring God. 

Population and the coming of Emmanuel.

I was thinking about when Christ came to this earth.  We tend to think today that the earth was as populated as it is now but it wasn't.  Doesn't it make sense that Christ would come into our world after the history of Israel had had enough time to show itself and show its failings and God's working with it but wouldn't Christ come before the greatest population growth since His work was going beyond Israel and into the whole world.  Why?  so that his important work would grow as the populations grow. The gospel was spread by a small number of people, His disciples, into a small world and grew as the world grew. The beginning of earth was the beginning of God's relationship with people and for that time was setting up that world for Christ to come at the right time to correct the chaos we had gotten ourselves into and create a history of His Story.