God Speaks to Man

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Have you ever had difficulty in making yourself understood by a young child? Just try answering some of his questions: “What’s the sky made of? Why did Grandma have to die? Where did God come from?” It can be quite a problem. The difference between your mental ability and the child’s is not as great as that between the mental ability of God, the Creator, and you, His creature. What method did He use to communicate with man? Did He send a great cataclysm of nature to awe us into submission? No, He sent a little Baby to be born in Bethlehem. Of course, babies are born every day, but this was a very special Baby. He was God in the flesh.

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