God Offers Us His Warm Embrace

God, who fills the universe,
who made it all, the stars and space,
did choose to put mankind on earth
and focus on this tiny place.

The perfect world he made for us
was broken by our parents' sin,
and nothing we try is enough
to heal it, make it whole again.
	
Our God, whose heart is endless love,
could never leave his children lost.
He left his palace up above
to be a man, at a huge cost.
	
Scrunched into human form, Jesus
would usher in God's Kingdom come,
to put an end to what kills us,
for he would die, God's holy Son.
	
This baby was no accident,
born in a stable, far from home;
Messiah, chosen one, God-sent,
his death killed death, made us his own.
	
Alleluia! We sing God's praise!
He offers us his warm embrace,
If we accept, we have our place
In his Kingdom come -- amazing grace!

Just think about it: God wants to hug us and bring us into his Family! And to make it possible, he came in human form to live in troubled times with minimal resources that most of us now consider essentials: furnaces, electricity, cars, computers, the Internet. He chose that time for his own reasons and showed us the fervor of his love—the extent he would go to in order to give us an open door to his Kingdom.

Do we shrug and turn away, choosing to live our lives our own way in the limited time span we have? Or do we jump into his arms and live a life covered with his love and the promise of forever with him?