{"id":38484,"date":"2025-12-11T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38484"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:34:43","slug":"251212-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251212-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of a Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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If you want to see people on the edge of insanity, just watch the way families treat their babies at Christmastime. The poor child has no warning. Red furry stocking cap, goofy elfish shoes that curl at the toes. And the pictures we take! Baby snoozing under the tree. Baby on Santa\u2019s lap. Santa with wet spot on lap.<\/p>\n

Is not Christmas the story of a baby? The moment that shaped all others? Mary\u2019s eyes falling on the face of her just-born son. The first to whisper, \u201cSo this is what God looks like!\u201d Never in mankind\u2019s wildest imaginings did we consider that God would enter the world as an infant. John 1:14 (NKJV) says, \u201cThe Word became flesh and dwelt among us.\u201d Would you like to see God? Well then take a look at the baby Jesus.<\/p>\n

\"Because<\/p>\n

Read more\u00a0Because of Bethlehem<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to see people on the edge of insanity, just watch the way families treat their babies at Christmastime. The poor child has no warning. Red furry stocking cap, goofy elfish shoes that curl at the toes. And the pictures we take! Baby snoozing under the tree. Baby on Santa\u2019s lap. Santa with wet spot on lap.<\/p>\n

Is not Christmas the story of a baby? The moment that shaped all others? Mary\u2019s eyes falling on the face of her just-born son. The first to whisper, \u201cSo this is what God looks like!\u201d Never in mankind\u2019s wildest imaginings did we consider that God would enter the world as an infant. John 1:14 (NKJV) says, \u201cThe Word became flesh and dwelt among us.\u201d Would you like to see God? Well then take a look at the baby Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38487,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions\/38487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}