What do I know?

As I have been once again contemplating the birth of Christ I have become deeply aware of how often our thinking and expectation is merely human even when we’re supposed to be thinking “spiritually”. 
Let’s consider a few things from the birth incident.
How do we measure the presence of God? So often it is by a feeling thing, so by something happening. But the presence of God was awesome the night of Jesus’ birth. Consider all the angelic activity for starters. Consider the miracle of the virgin birth. But, as I have already written in recent weeks, the other residents of the inn and the landlord had no idea at all what was happening. Surely what was happening were signs of revival. Why didn’t revival break out? The word and promise of God brings more certainty of the knowledge of the presence of God than does physical manifestation.
Why didn’t Mary become an evangelist? After all, in the whole of history, no one else has ever had such an experience. No one else has ever experienced a greater miracle! But Mary appeared to keep her mouth shut. We find in several places that she observed and pondered things in her heart! I wouldn’t want to build a practice or develop a theology from this. But it is one of those puzzles of God of which I have to say that his thoughts are greater than mine.
And then I think about Jesus’ flight into Egypt. Could he not have stayed where he was and enjoy the power of God to overcome those who came against him. Would this not have saved many babies lives? But then again, had he not gone down to Egypt the prophetic word of “being called from Egypt” could not have come to pass. 
We can, if we’re not careful, try to bring God in his thinking and actions, down to a merely human level. God is God, and part of our prayer has to be God be God in our midst and in our nation. GJJ