51 years ago on Christmas Eve, the world was fixed on their television screens as, for the first time in history, men had left the earth’s grasp and had reached the moon. In the mission that would lay the groundwork for Neal Armstrong and Apollo 11, Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon. As those men circled the moon, something they knew so well from studies, books, and pictures, for the first time they truly beheld the moon and it left them breathless and speechless. What they discovered is that their beholding and the moon was very, very different than knowing about the moon. The question for us as we celebrate the incarnation is much the same- do we know and behold God or do we just know about him?
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