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An Empty Manger

Dec 21, 2025    Todd Williams

What if Jesus had never come? This haunting question opens a powerful exploration of God's miraculous intervention in human history through the incarnation. Drawing from Jeremiah 18's image of the potter and the clay, we're reminded that we are God's creation—marred by sin, broken by rebellion, yet not discarded. Instead of throwing away the ruined clay, the Potter chose to remake it. This required the most costly sacrifice imaginable: God Himself stepping into time, taking on human flesh, and walking among us for 33 years before offering His life on Calvary. The message challenges us to truly grasp what Christmas means—not just a sentimental story we've heard countless times, but the astounding reality that the Creator God loved us enough to become one of us, to experience our pain, to show us how to live, and ultimately to wash away the foreign substance of sin with His own blood. Without Christ's coming, we would be utterly hopeless, with no sacrifice for sin, no Holy Spirit, no path to redemption. But because He came, we are new creations, reformed and remade by the Master Potter's hands.