The Incarnation - Jesus coming to Earth in human form - is absolutely staggering. The idea of the glory of the God of the universe being contained in a simple, nondescript human body is more than we can honestly wrap our minds around.

"No, Lord" is an oxymoron. If we call God our "Lord" then we are calling Him our "master" and more than that - our owner. The implication is that He has Lordship over our lives. He calls the shots. He's in charge.

So much of the Christian life is about promises - the promises of God for our lives. In the Bible, we see character after character receive a promise from God and then see it fulfilled. But most of the time, the real narrative is about the struggle for faith in between those 2 points.

Have you ever stuck your foot in your mouth? Of course you have. But some of us are better at it than others (count me in that group). Perhaps the worst of all foot-in-mouth offenses are the ones we make out of a lack of faith…