THE CAVE-MAN, WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, IS BORN
We read, according to St. Luke: “In those days, Caesar Augustus published a decree ordering a census of the whole world.” Caesar ordered. But, actually and unknowingly, mighty Caesar, was himself being ordered by One mightier than he. No man can change God’s Divine Plan. God uses man’s pride, avarice and apparent power, to realise His Plan.
Have we ever stopped to think that the whole Roman world was affected, because of the census? The whole Roman Empire was in turmoil, and the one reason, was a Divine reason; Christ had to be born in Betlehem of Juda, according to what the prophets had spoken of, years before.
I believe it was Gilbert Keith Chesterton (G.K.C.), a convert to Catholicism, who once said ‘The human story began in a cave: the cave which popular science associates with the cave-man, and in which practical discovery, has really found archaic drawings of animals. The second half of human history, which was like a new creation of the world, also began in a cave. Incidentally (?) animals were present, for this cave was a stable in the uplands of Betlehem.’
It was here that a homeless couple had crept underground with the cattle when the doors of Betlehem were shut in their faces. ‘There was no place for them at the inn, ’ so goes the Gospel narrative.
And it was here beneath the very feet of the passers-by, in a cellar under the floor of the world, that Jesus Christ was born. We can say that God-man was also a ‘Cave Man’. A mass of legend and literature have been written and spoken of about ‘those hands’ that created the stars and sun, and yet were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle.
The first act of the Divine Drama was enacted, not only on ‘NO stage set’ above the sightseers, but on a drab curtained stage sunken out of sight. But this indescribable thing that we call the Christmas atmosphere only hangs in the air as something like a lingering fragrance or fading vapour from the exultant explosion of that one-hour in the Judean hills, circa two thousand years ago.
There is in this buried divinity an idea of ‘’undermining” the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below, even as Herod, the great king felt that earthquake under him and swayed with his swaying palace.
To this very day if you want to visit the place where Christ was born, you have to bow low to enter the cave through the main door and the cave itself. And is that not a gesture of submission, a giving of homage to the Creator made-man? God’s Plans have been drawn up like an architect’s blue print, since eternity.
God-man was born like a Cave Man, under the earth, and died on top of the earth on top of a mount. But in the process of travelling from under the earth to the top of the mountain, HE did shake the whole world, and is still doing it. Whether you believe in Him or not, you must believe that the world is in turmoil until We all accept Him as Lord of the earth.
May I wish all readers a Blessed Birth of the Lord of the Universe in our poor but warm heart.
We read, according to St. Luke: “In those days, Caesar Augustus published a decree ordering a census of the whole world.” Caesar ordered. But, actually and unknowingly, mighty Caesar, was himself being ordered by One mightier than he. No man can change God’s Divine Plan. God uses man’s pride, avarice and apparent power, to realise His Plan.
Have we ever stopped to think that the whole Roman world was affected, because of the census? The whole Roman Empire was in turmoil, and the one reason, was a Divine reason; Christ had to be born in Betlehem of Juda, according to what the prophets had spoken of, years before.
I believe it was Gilbert Keith Chesterton (G.K.C.), a convert to Catholicism, who once said ‘The human story began in a cave: the cave which popular science associates with the cave-man, and in which practical discovery, has really found archaic drawings of animals. The second half of human history, which was like a new creation of the world, also began in a cave. Incidentally (?) animals were present, for this cave was a stable in the uplands of Betlehem.’
It was here that a homeless couple had crept underground with the cattle when the doors of Betlehem were shut in their faces. ‘There was no place for them at the inn, ’ so goes the Gospel narrative.
And it was here beneath the very feet of the passers-by, in a cellar under the floor of the world, that Jesus Christ was born. We can say that God-man was also a ‘Cave Man’. A mass of legend and literature have been written and spoken of about ‘those hands’ that created the stars and sun, and yet were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle.
The first act of the Divine Drama was enacted, not only on ‘NO stage set’ above the sightseers, but on a drab curtained stage sunken out of sight. But this indescribable thing that we call the Christmas atmosphere only hangs in the air as something like a lingering fragrance or fading vapour from the exultant explosion of that one-hour in the Judean hills, circa two thousand years ago.
There is in this buried divinity an idea of ‘’undermining” the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below, even as Herod, the great king felt that earthquake under him and swayed with his swaying palace.
To this very day if you want to visit the place where Christ was born, you have to bow low to enter the cave through the main door and the cave itself. And is that not a gesture of submission, a giving of homage to the Creator made-man? God’s Plans have been drawn up like an architect’s blue print, since eternity.
God-man was born like a Cave Man, under the earth, and died on top of the earth on top of a mount. But in the process of travelling from under the earth to the top of the mountain, HE did shake the whole world, and is still doing it. Whether you believe in Him or not, you must believe that the world is in turmoil until We all accept Him as Lord of the earth.
May I wish all readers a Blessed Birth of the Lord of the Universe in our poor but warm heart.
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